phantom; vision; illusion; extremely rare item
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
eyewitness report; eyewitness information
to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
prize money; monetary award; reward
stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)
sly; cunning; sneaky; crafty; unfair; dishonest
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
surely; certainly; without doubt
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
tool; implement; means; furniture
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
to raise; to elevate; to do up (one's hair); to fly (a kite, etc.); to launch (fireworks, etc.); to land (a boat); to deep-fry
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
that's the way it is; yes; is that so?; is it?
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
how many people; a number of people
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
beginning; outset; first; onset
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
to grow wild; to run to waste; to become rough (of art, craft, etc.); to lose refinement; to intensify (of wind, rain, etc.); to become more severe
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to make an appearance; to show up
alone; by oneself; on one's own
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
how; in what way; how about
then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)