administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
keychain; key chain; key ring (encryption)
according to; reads; reading; is written; says; states
secret trick; hidden method; trick of the trade; cheat (in a video game)
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
to be amazed; to be shocked; to be astonished; to be astounded; to be disgusted; to be exasperated
tension; mental strain; nervousness
to rub; to scrub; to scrape
to see without obstruction; to see through; to forecast; to predict; to anticipate
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
rapidly (e.g. progress, moving forward); growing visibly; quickly; steadily; by leaps and bounds
hesitation; indecision; vacillation
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to become coarse (e.g. of a texture); to turn rough; to turn gritty; to become sandy
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation
place where one can remove one's shoes before entering a house
place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
corridor; hallway; passageway
toilet; restroom; bathroom; lavatory
apparently; appears to be
apartment with one bedroom and a combined dining room and kitchen
with shoes on; rudely; thoughtlessly
counter for chairs or seats
isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words
clanging; empty; deserted
four corners; four ordinal directions
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up
to telephone; to make a phone call
ghost; specter; spectre; apparition; phantom