disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis
going out to shop; going shopping; buying in quantity; buying wholesale; bulk purchasing
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
offender; criminal; culprit
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.
telephone call; speaking over the telephone; (Internet) voice call; counter for telephone calls of a set duration
to prick up one's ears and listen; to listen attentively
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind
dubious; puzzled; suspicious
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
nonexistent; nil; none; nothing (at all); bugger-all
equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent
foreign; abroad; overseas
reliability; trustworthiness; dependability
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
extraordinary; uncommon; remarkable; unusual; rare; prodigious
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
nickname; alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume; other name
the Almighty; The Omnipotent One
to stay (at); to stop (at)
to find out; to discover; to locate
weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
thereupon; shortly thereafter
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
shopping district; shopping street; downtown
to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across