advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift
fourth day of the month; four days
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
advance notice; previous note; preliminary announcement; trailer (film, TV); preview
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
the truth; fact; as it is; as you are; frank; bare plain
clanging; banging; throbbing (headache); pounding; fully; vigorously
dangling; hanging; suspended; pending; half done; in limbo
in the same manner as before; the same as always
to ask a high price; to overcharge
point (of a story, argument, etc.); point (e.g. in stock exchange movement); percentage point; switch; points; point; site
short-tempered; quick-tempered; hasty
selection; choice; option
to evaluate; to appraise; to comment on
though; notwithstanding; although
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof
people; men and women; each person; everybody
citizen; citizenry; city inhabitant; townspeople; bourgeoisie; middle class
penalty; sentence; punishment
pistol; handgun; revolver
illegal possession; unlawful possession
regulation; (traffic) policing; control; restriction
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
great; grand; extensive; large-scale
impact (on); (strong) impression; effect; impact (of a ball against a racket, bat, club, etc.)
bright place; the light; the open; light of day; public knowledge
official announcement; proclamation
ping-pong; table tennis; exactly!; surely!; ding dong (sound of door bell, chime, etc.)
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known