to count on; to expect; to put confidence in; to trust in; to depend on
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
present point (i.e. in history); at the present time
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
valid; effective; yuko (judo)
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
process; course; mechanism
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
accurate; correct; precise; exact
whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
precision instrument or machine
incomparable; cannot compare (with); beyond comparison; in another league
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
neck; head; dismissal; discharge
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago
to soothe; to calm; to pacify
acceleration; speeding up
offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; set-off; setoff
gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull
burden; load (e.g. CPU time, electricity, etc.)
joint (knee, elbow, etc.)
all; whole; entire; complete (set); in total
thin; slender; fine; unlucky
breakdown; failure; damage; hurt; objection; protest
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape)
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
repair; mending; fixing; servicing
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)
to close one's eyes; to lower one's eyelids; to shut one's eyes; to die; to breathe one's last