stronghold; inner citadel; base; headquarters
specific; particular; designated; specifying; designating; identifying
collecting; accumulating; collection (of art, stamps, insects, etc.); garbage collection; waste collection
equipment; device; installation; stage setting
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
rough (estimate, outline, etc.); broad; general; generous; openhanded
place; situation; position; location
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
trial manufacture; experiment; test piece; prototype
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
to concern; to be related
practical use; application; conjugation; inflection
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
renewal; update; innovation; improvement
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se
renewal; replacement; regeneration; metabolism
to furnish; to install; to get someone's agreement; to patronize; to buy usually from the same store
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
pipe shaft (in a building); riser shaft
composite; combined; complex
garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location
retaliation; revenge; reprisal; retorsion; retortion
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation
about; concerning; related to; -ish
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
to poke one's nose into another's affairs; to have a hand in; to take a (deep) interest in; to poke one's head (into a room)
surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted