secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings
neighborhood; vicinity; environs; approaching
dweller; inhabitant; resident; user (of a website)
operation; management; handling; manipulating (to one's benefit); manipulation; influencing
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
state; condition; situation; appearance; circumstances
how many years; how long; what year
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
expressly; especially; taking the trouble (to do); intentionally; deliberately
to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for
boss; leader; head; boss (difficult enemy, usu. at the end of a section or level)
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
last ray of hope; only hope
check; restraint; oppression; suppression
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause
concept; general idea; notion; intention; aim; design
smuggling; bootlegging; illicit trade
to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low
chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
bound hand and foot; hedged in (e.g. by restrictions); immobile
deep emotion; strong feelings
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder