career track; promotional track; fast track; upward mobility
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
annual; yearly; year (e.g. of graduation); nth year (e.g. student); order by year
obedient; submissive; tame; slavish
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
internal conditions; true state of affairs
experienced person; person who has had a particular experience
unity; coherence; consistency; settlement; conclusion; completion
replenishment; supplementation; supplement; replacement; refilling
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
fullness; completion; enhancement; improvement; replenishment; repletion
administration; governance; the authorities; authority
keeping a domestic animal beyond its useful life; keeping a person on the payroll without utilizing their skills
until now; so far; up to the present
awkward (movements, speech, etc.); jerky; stiff; strained (relations); sour
bargaining; haggling; tactics; strategy
sense of values; values; value system
appearance; expression; manifestation
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
ignoring; bypassing; doing something without consultation; going over someone's head
essence; true nature; substance; reality
disgraceful behavior; disgraceful behaviour; shameful sight
discord; (on) bad terms (with)
to say; to be pleased to say
to let out a cry; to break forth
leisure; leisure time; spare time
unable to move; dead in the water; completely helpless
soft, coaxing voice; wheedling voice; ingratiating voice
totally (immersed in something, e.g. liquid, work); addicted
to be submerged; to be soaked; to be pickled; to be well seasoned; to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)
one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances; one's lot; one's destiny; one's future
to be temperate in; to refrain; to make notes; to jot down (e.g. phone number); to be in preparation for; to be in waiting for
change (of personnel); reshuffle (e.g. of a cabinet); shake-up; dismissal (e.g. of a minister); replacement
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)
to pick; to pluck; to snip; to cut; to nip
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
exactly; precisely; closely; tightly; properly; without fail
integration; unification; unity; combination; consolidation; synthesis