smelling burnt; smelling scorched; smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out); tense; suspicious; dubious
request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
no!; no no!; no, not at all
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable
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.)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
murder; killing; murderer
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
detective bureau; detective agency; investigation firm
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
viewer; (television) audience
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty