putting into operation; invocation
street; road; traffic; coming and going; flow (of water, air, etc.); passage; transmission (of sound)
quick; swift; nimble; quick (understanding, judgement, etc.); alert; prompt
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
single; single bed; hotel room with a single bed; single-breasted; single-cuffed; single width (of cloth; usu. 0.71 meters); singles (tennis, badminton, etc.)
instant; moment; for an instant
to grow senile; to be childish with age; to be mentally slow; to be befuddled; to play stupid; to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine)
focus; focal point; focus (of attention, a discussion, etc.); point at issue; focus
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
order; command; decree; (software) instruction; statement
indicates being the subject or receiver of an action, decision, etc.; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)
practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
how about ...?; I wonder; I don't know
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
approval; agreement; support; favour; favor
proposal; proposition; suggestion
anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
to laugh (something) off; to dismiss with a laugh; to pooh-pooh
difference; distinction; discrepancy; mistake; error
like; as; so that; in order that; be sure to; I hope (that)
genuine article; real thing; real deal
power; might; authority; influence
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
to distribute; to hand out
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence
action; operation; process; agency; effect; function
something like ...; something called ...
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
and so; therefore; for that reason
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
one day; all day (long); the whole day; first day of the month
limited; restricted; constrained
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
rearing; training; nurture; cultivation; promotion