few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom
advance; moving forward; progress
to concern; to be related
expertise; experience; knowledge
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
to collect; to assemble; to gather
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
to lend an ear; to hearken; to give an ear to; to listen carefully
dramatic; exciting; touching; extreme
meaning; significance; sense
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
essence; true nature; substance; reality
explosive; sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid
amount of information; information content (information theory); Shannon information; surprisal
those (near the second person)
instant; moment; (split) second; (in a) flash; (in the) blink of an eye
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
network; Internet; net (hair, netball, etc.); net (price, weight, etc.); nett
environment; circumstance
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
as; because; with; due to
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
in that way; thus; so; so?
don't you think?; indicates question
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
isn't it?; let's ...; why don't we ...; how about we ...
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
event; phenomenon; matter
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
to turn towards; to point
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence