simple; plain; modest; frugal; reserved
economic; financial; economical; thrifty; frugal
castle construction; building a castle; fortification
other; another; over; more than; I; me
departure; setting off; being used up; being consumed; passage of time; lapse; rehearsal
body double; double; wire puller; person behind the scenes; shadow commander
guard; sentinel; garrison
high alert; a state of high alert; on alert
vein (of ore); reef; streak; lode
rude person; villain; blackguard; scoundrel; rogue; libertine
proxy; ringer; substitute; second serving of noodles (to add to previously purchased ramen)
fabrication; lie; fiction
to get in someone's pocket; to help oneself to someone's wallet; to curry favour (favor); to butter up; to get in close to one's opponent
peace at any price (attitude); peace idiot; peace senility; complacency about peace
cliche; platitude; formula; set phrase
applicant for a job; job seeker; job-hunter
interviewer (for job, school, etc. interviews)
an infinite variety of; multifarious; being extremely varied and wide-ranging
to shave off (esp. concrete); to take a percentage; to take a cut
wide sense (e.g. of a word); broad sense
miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary
certified (as genuine, valuable, etc.); guaranteed (article); of established reputation; acknowledged; pièce de résistance
inattention; absent-mindedness
otherworldliness; detachment from the real world; lack of worldly sense
to lean coquettishly against; to snuggle into; to nestle into
slovenly; loose; sluttish; slatternly; untidy; undisciplined
marks; points; score; number of items; number of articles
brilliant; glorious; glittering; bright; splendid (e.g. achievement, success); promising (e.g. future)
resemblance; similarity; analogy
somewhere to go; place to go
cannot avoid doing; cannot help but (do); is compelled to do; (feel) obliged to (do); has to do
insight; power of observation
certificate; certified document; (the) thumbs up; seal of approval; paper with signature of the shogun or lord
to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes
in (of a ball, in tennis, etc.); inside the line; in; inside; enter here; enter
getting information (esp. by interviewing witnesses, etc. in a police investigation)
first of all; in the first place