year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)
elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding
he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
calamity; disaster; accident
to bring (news, knowledge, etc.); to introduce; to bring about; to cause; to produce (e.g. results)
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance
first generation; founder
lifespan; life; lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life
prediction; prophecy; prognostication; (religious) prophecy
since; henceforth; ever since
continental state (e.g. Australia)
cooperation; conciliation; harmony; coordination
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
difference; discrepancy; variation
split; division; break up
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties
mission; errand; task; duty; obligation
one's long-cherished desire
to be caused by; to result from; to arise from; cause; origin
so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
confused; disordered; faltered; incoherent; inconsistent
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
to eat; to become eclipsed (of an astronomical object)
to distinguish by smell; to smell the difference (between); to scent out; to discern (one thing from another); to determine
to state; to express; to say; to tell; to mention
grasp (of the situation, meaning, etc.); understanding; control; hold; grip
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly; less and less
wanting (to have); desiring; wishing for; I want (you, them, etc.) to (do)
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow (handling, dealing with something); anyhow; one way or another
to throw up (e.g. mud); to splash (up); to flip up; to tip up; to raise sharply (e.g. prices); to hike