center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
meeting convened to discuss issues; planning conference; review meeting; feedback session; investigative commission
to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)
divining sticks; counting; calculation
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
meeting; assembly; association; conjunction
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
wild uproar; pandemonium; clamor of voices; noisy; uproarious; clamorous
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
leading person; foremost figure
consensus; collective will; collective opinion
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
to refuse; to decline; to deny
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
to garnish; to accompany (as a card does a gift); to add to as support; to prop up; to accompany (as an aid, guide, translator, etc.); (arch.) to mimic
council (deliberative, consultative); commission of inquiry (enquiry)
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
way; method; means; resource; course
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
striking; remarkable; considerable
linguistic aspects of life; linguistic behaviour
remains; traces; (the sorrow of) parting; end
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
to be too numerous; to be too much
just barely; only just; at the very limit; at the last moment
tolerance level; permissible range; acceptable limits
to want; to wish for; to request; to demand; to seek; to search for
three parts; three copies
chapter one; first chapter
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
proposal; motion; recommendation
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
nature; property; disposition
pivot; vital point; cornerstone; Japanese photinia
foreign element; impurity; admixture