senior leadership; senior leader; upper echelon (of power); top-ranking officer
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
hey!; say!; I say!; I; me
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
to be offended; to get angry; to be stuffy; to be stifling; firmly (shutting one's mouth)
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
not feeling like doing ...; having no mind to ...; being in no mood for ...; having no intention of ...
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together
emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
steering; piloting; flying; management (of people); handling; manipulation
metre (unit of length); meter; meter; gauge
maintenance; preservation; improvement
to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance
labyrinth; maze; mystery; dungeon
just like; exactly like; as if; (do) just like ...; (be) virtually like ...; as if it were ...
to faint; to lose consciousness; to be in a daze; to feel overwhelmed; to feel exhausted
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
(street) corner; turn (in the road); bend; turning point; watershed
section (of track, etc.); segment; dimension; interval
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
suicidal act; self-destroying action; suicidal action
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to be captivated (by); to be infatuated (with)
end; conclusion; last; final; once ...; the moment ... (, that's it)
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
(death from) starvation; starving to death
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
a few hours; several hours; a couple of hours
to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time
arm; ability; skill; (physical) strength
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
to bury; to embed; to implant
emission (of light); radiation (of light); luminescence
pale; pallid; bluish-white
pit of one's stomach; bottom of one's heart; one's true feelings; one's innermost thoughts