to ask a question; to ask questions
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity
invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion
preparing to flee; being ready to run away
consent; agreement; acceptance; understanding; satisfaction (e.g. with an explanation); being convinced
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being
actual existence; real existence; existing in real life
demon; devil; evil spirit; monster; goblin; apparition
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
extra-sensory perception; ESP; psi; psychokinesis; PK
physical law; laws of physics
actually; really; truly; in practice; practically
revelation; manifestation; appearance; expression (e.g. in molecular biology; protein expression or gene expression)
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
occurrence; incidence; generation (of power, heat, etc.); production; ontogeny; development
rapid succession (e.g. questions)
friendly; openhearted; sociable; amiable; good-humored; good-humoured
friendly; easy to get on with; easy to talk to; easy to like
in succession; one after another
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; mysterious; meaningless
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
to say previously unspoken thoughts; to start saying; to court someone
being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image
that's the way it is; such is life
movie; film; motion picture
reality; actuality; hard fact
to be possible; to be conceivable; to be likely; to be probable
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind