roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
vote; ballot; label; ticket; tag
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
number of votes polled; poll votes
influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
politics; political manoeuvre; political maneuver
bog; marsh; swamp; quandary; dire situation from which one cannot extricate oneself; imbroglio
lacking skill; uninspiring; unexciting; dull; unrefined; boring (from being too plain)
to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)
strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious
reluctant; unwilling; involuntary; unintentional; unintended; unlooked-for
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
by means of; due to; because of; according to
hard (life); tough (world)
competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
to leave (someone) alone; to leave to oneself; to leave (someone) be
ignorant of the ways of the world
student (esp. a university student)
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
both sides; two sides; double-sided
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
improper; inappropriate; unjust; unfair; unreasonable
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
star (cinema, sports, etc.); celebrity; star symbol; asterisk; (celestial) star
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like
requital of a favour (favor); repayment (of an obligation, kindness, etc.)
submitting to (a demand, one's fate, etc.); putting up with; resigning oneself to; accepting (without complaint)
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
unqualified; without qualifications
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast