cash; ready money; money on hand; mercenary; self-interested; calculating
load; baggage; cargo; burden; responsibility
to lose money; to spend money
to air; to dry; to drain (off); to drink up; to deprive of a role, job, etc.
thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal
as a matter of fact; to tell the truth
snatching; stealing; seizure; usurpation
acquisition (esp. corporate); buy-out; takeover; bribery; buying off; corruption
to clamber; to climb with hands and feet; to crawl up; to creep up
goddamn idiot; moron; nitwit
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)
to relax one's efforts; to let up; to let one's guard down
to judge; to decide; to solve; to decipher; to divine; to guess
to take someone's life; to kill someone
one's last moments; death throes; agony of death
settlement (of affairs); remedial measures; cleaning up afterwards
premature; untimely (e.g. death); early
to be too late; to be too slow
one by one; one after another; successively
aspect; phase; condition; modality (philosophy)
bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; desperate; frantic
perfectly ordered; perfectly coordinated
tall and thin; long and thin; lanky; spindly; gangly
decolourization; decolorization; decolourisation; decolorisation; bleaching
to prune; to trim; to reap (a crop) and put into storage; to harvest; to prune (a manuscript); to cut down
gorgeous; gaudy; dazzling; gay; resplendent
cloth; fabric; dough; batter; inherent quality; one's true character; unglazed pottery
(committing, resorting to) an act of violence
to hold one's nose; to pinch one's nose
lucidity; intelligibility; perspicuity
to agree; to decide upon; to enter into (a contract)
to break a promise; to go back on one's word; to renege
egregious; outrageous; too much; over the top
pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe