arousal; excitation; awakening; evocation
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to exchange (things); to convert (currency); to be in contrast (to); to contrast (with)
imagination; supposition; guess
in truth; as it is; as you are; in practice
to distribute; to apportion; to divide
difficult to ...; hard to ...
seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock
smoke screen; dazzler; camouflage; deceptive means; magic; witchcraft
exposure; laying bare; baring (e.g. skin); (photographic) exposure
concrete; tangible; material
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
false impression; deceptive appearance; mere show
defect; fault; flaw; deformity; deficiency; shortage
self-affirmation; self-approval
adaptation; accommodation; conforming; acclimatization; acclimatisation
deception; make-believe; fake; counterfeit; phony
sublimation (philosophy); abandonment
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
to use as an example; to take as an illustration; to draw a parallel
isolation; being alone; being friendless
front part; frontage; facade; initial pledge (e.g. election); opening slogan
to await; to look forward to; to anticipate; to depend on; to need
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around
outward appearance; apparent
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
leaving as is; leaving alone; leaving to chance; neglecting; abandoning
other side; another side; different angle; on the other hand
popular use; circulation; to pass as; to pass for