professor; teaching; instruction
grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence
dear (old); fondly remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
(your) words; what you say; what you have said; a few words (of welcome, advice, etc.)
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
why; how; for what reason
headquarters; head office; main office
to carve into; to cut into; to engrave into; to inscribe
to decorate; to ornament; to display; to exhibit; to mark (e.g. the day with a victory); to adorn (e.g. the front page)
a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; knowing; pregnant (pause)
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away
clearing one's throat; cough
to close one's eyes; to lower one's eyelids; to shut one's eyes; to die; to breathe one's last
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
easily (reach, exceed, etc.); comfortably; amply; fully; well over
(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud; turning over in one's mind; thinking over (something); pondering
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
how; in what way; I wonder
as stated; verbatim; literally
to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind
first letter of a word; capital letter (at the start of a word or sentence); initials (of one's name)
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
serious; not joking; straight; (arch.) cannot; (arch.) should not; (arch.) will not
ability to think up names; knack for naming things
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...
to fold one's arms; to link arms with someone
to get someone to say; to make someone say; to let someone say; to let someone speak out; to make a sound
impressiveness; impact; force; intensity; presence; appeal
clearly; plainly; distinctly; decisively; flatly; definitely
assertion; declaration; affirmation
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
small spiral-shelled snail; spiral shellfish
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many
great person; eminent figure