exhausting work; hard work; severe duty
important post; important office; key position
poor health; ill health; unhealthy
to cave in; to become depressed; to sink
middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
the same kind; accomplice; partner
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
abduction; kidnapping; kidnaping
with; by; because of; on account of; on (a day, date); at (a time); adds emphasis to preceding word
background (of a case, incident, etc.)
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel
good-for-nothing; worthless
guidance; lead; guide; primer; influence; connections
to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse
prison; jail; gaol; firm; solid; strong
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n
infinity; infinitude; eternity; infinite; limitless
escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis
fear; dread; fright; willies
in the style of (esp. literary, artistic, etc. works); reminiscent of; attached or stretched on
excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
to be all out (e.g. of people); to be all elsewhere; to be all in use (e.g. of cars); to be sold out; to have none left
to incur someone's enmity
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being