wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
to grant (request, wish); to answer (prayer); to fulfill (conditions); to meet (requirements)
detection (of a plot, fraud, etc.); discovery; coming to light; being uncovered
disposal; throwing away; dealing with (a problem); measure; punishment; penalty
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
although I say; although one might say; although called
writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books; cancelling out (gains or losses); making even; making up (for)
to switch (secretly); to substitute; to sidestep (an issue)
to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit
to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble up; to put together in a hurry
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
leader; central personage
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
interior; inside; internal
collaborator; cooperator; coworker; ally
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend