distinguished family; famous family; noble family; prestigious organization (company, school, etc.)
pupil; student; schoolchild
perpetrator; wrong-doer; aggressor; assailant; offender; at-fault party (e.g. in an accident)
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
to strike; to hit; to attack; to bash; to sound out (someone's views); to pound (meat or fish); to chop into small pieces
... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?")
consumption; expenditure; spending
viewer (esp. of television, streaming video content); audience; viewership; listener (occ. of radio, audio streaming content)
to conform to; to agree with; to be adapted to; to be based on
present age; present day; contemporary; modern era; modern times; contemporary era
report (of news); reporting; news; information; (media) coverage
to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty; to say well; to say cleverly; to say often; to say frequently
back seat (of a car); rear seat
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
main road; main thoroughfare; arterial road
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; operation; moving picture
unprecedented; never seen before
lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk
high-rise building; tower block; skyscraper
group; bunch; crowd; group
to reach the point where ...; to come to ...; to come to be that ...; to start to ...; to begin to ...
development; cultivation; application; exploitation (of resources)
on the occasion of; at the time of
public appeal (e.g. for contributions); public advertisement (of a post); open recruitment; public offering (of securities)
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
tendency; trend; inclination
relatedness; associativity; relation; relationship; relevance
to hold in one's mouth; to bring with; to take along
blip bleep; in short repeated movements
sidelong glance; short grain (paper); kanji "net" radical at top
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); responding to kindness with resentment; thinking ill of someone who meant to be kind; unjustified resentment; unreasonable grudge
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
generosity; magnanimity; tolerance; length and capacity; measures