care; attentiveness; attention; consideration (for others); solicitude
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
(I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); (I) fancy (that)
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval
you are quite right; reasonable; natural; just
to relax; to make oneself comfortable
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
to see without obstruction; to see through; to forecast; to predict; to anticipate
scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick
to break; to smash; to defeat; to destroy; to eliminate
just before one's eyes; in one's presence; personally
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
to be frugal; to be sparing; to value; to hold dear; to regret (e.g. a loss); to feel sorry (for)
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
assistant; helper; assistant (to a professor)
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
similarly; same (idea); same (name)
camp (supporters of a doctrine, party, etc.); faction (of a party); military camp; encampment; cantonment
intelligence agency; secret service
set of three; three sets; three classes
weave; weaving; woven item
scale; scope; plan; structure
to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to drop (something) into
countries all over the world; all the countries of the world
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
wick; marrow; core; heart; pistil (of a flower); stamen
sour look; surly face; pout
many; much; a great amount; (arch.) excessive amount
outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough
primordial; fundamental; basic; primitive
feng (male Chinese firebird)
large bird; peng (in Chinese mythology, giant bird said to transform from a fish); fenghuang (Chinese phoenix)
well-grilled; extra grilled; well-done
be (that) as it may; having said that
crossing swords; competing against; contending with; fighting against