to be renewed; to change; to be improved; to be reformed; to stand on ceremony; to be formal
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
to take advantage (of someone's weaknesses, carelessness, etc.); to impose on
tear; rip; breach; spoilage; waste; wastepaper
daily routine; daily work; daily lesson
whispering; whisper; secret talk; murmur
(someone's) child; person with parents; other people's children; the Son of Man; Christ
song lyrics; words of a song; libretto
delay; lag; falling behind; falling behind in; lagging behind in
short sword; knife; dagger; dirk; tantō
chattering (teeth); (frozen, worried) stiff; rigid (personality, thinking, etc.); inflexible; voracious (e.g. work, study); without slack or pause
to make it worth someone's while; to make something worthwhile
reward; compensation; collateral; security; turning to look behind
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
black kite (Milvus migrans); construction worker; scaffold erector; fire hook; reddish brown; Inverness cape; filcher
owl (esp. the Ural owl, Strix uralensis)
basic tone; underlying tone; trend; keynote
boundary; (nuclear) criticality; critical (mass, pressure, temperature, state, point, etc.)
several times (as large, over)
restless; fidgety; lively; busy
to devour; to bite to death
to break down (an opponent's defenses); to defeat; to knock out the opponent's pitcher (with consecutive base hits); to break (an established notion); to refute (e.g. a theory)
to be at a loss how to continue an offensive; to be frustrated by impregnable defences
kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like
plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice
to smoke a cigarette; to smoke
to hesitate to; to waver; to be hesitant about
to be transparent; to be easily seen through; to be obvious; to be apparent
hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
to know; to understand; to (understand and) accept (a responsibility); to have a knowledge of (a skill, art, etc.); to have a command of
exhausting work; hard work; severe duty
therefore; for that reason; such being the case
useless object; deadwood; white elephant; boondoggle
considerably; not a little; in no small numbers