cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
progress; advance; improvement; development
to ask; to inquire; to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to care about; to regard as important
diligently; seriously; perfectly; properly; sufficiently; satisfactorily
study; research; investigation
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
thank you; thanks; much (thanks); very (sorry); quite; really; somehow
to understand; to make out
inverted; upside down; reversed; back to front; wrong way round
robot; (mere) puppet; pawn; figurehead
police; police officer; police station
newspaper reporter; print journalist
to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to learn of (by chance)
late at night; at a late hour
attack; offence; dominant partner of a homosexual relationship; a barrage of; a flood of
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to surround; to crowd around
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
hot topic; talk of the town
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
after that (a substantive change occurred)
almost every day; almost daily
to make an appearance; to show up
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
after a short time; in a short while; a short time later
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
another; one more; not quite; not very good; lacking
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
to happen to meet; to come across
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
alone; by oneself; on one's own
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
(United States of) America; USA
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to