request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely
furthermore; adding to the above-mentioned; not quite; not very good; lacking
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
earthly paradise; Shangri-la
network; Internet; net (hair, netball, etc.); net (price, weight, etc.); nett
convenient; handy; useful
silence (not speaking); muteness
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid
I wonder about that; don't bet on it; famous last words
to manage something successfully; to be successful
knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things
to get tired of; to lose interest in; to be fed up with; to have enough
advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system); (arch.) socialist; (arch.) communist
to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to entangle; to trap; to brush out (e.g. dust, fur, plaque); to extract
follow; following (on social media, esp. Twitter); follow-up; following up; backing-up; covering for; follow-up shot
to go out and away; to leave
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
actual existence; real existence; existing in real life
to extol; to sing the praises of; to celebrate; to declare; to stipulate; to express
levitation; floating on air; airborne (e.g. bacteria); aero-
observation; survey; measurement; opinion; prediction; thinking
thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article
time after time; countless times; many a time; dozens of times
to see; to witness; to observe; to catch sight of; to get a glimpse of; to encounter
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it
dubious tale; cock-and-bull story; questionable information
to explain adequately; to be accountable
dry; dry (tone, humour, etc.); unemotional; dry (of alcohol)
fraud; trickery; hoax; swindle; counterfeit; fake
love; affection; attachment; craving; agape; Ireland
to fill; to become full (of); to wax (of the moon); to rise (of the tide); to flow; to expire (of a period of time)