to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
to sink; to go down; to pass away; to die; to disappear; to vanish
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
to rise to the surface; to surface; to stand out (e.g. against a background)
start; beginning; build up; how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game
to accompany; to go with; to go together
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
river; stream; River; the ... river
high street; town centre (center)
head (of organization, organisation); chief; sheikh; emir
hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
headquarters; head office; main office
wood; woods; forest; bunch (of something); cluster; line
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
system where all students live in dormitories; residential system; boarding system (e.g. boarding school)
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
boarder; boarding student
dramatic decrease; sharp drop; sudden fall
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
reorganization (e.g. of a company); reorganisation; consolidation; scrap-and-build
to demolish; to tear down; to pull down
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
dweller; inhabitant; resident; user (of a website)
gas (state of matter, e.g. poison gas, natural gas); gasoline; gas; dense fog; thick fog; gas stove
water supply; water service; channel; strait; water course; waterway
to put in order; to arrange; to get ready; to prepare; to work out (e.g. business deal); to arrange (e.g. marriage)
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
establishment; institution; installation (of a machine or equipment)
extraordinary; special; exceptional; non-standard grammatical construction; ungrammatical usage; solecism
treatment; reception; service; working conditions; salary; pay
nice-looking; seemingly fine; nice-sounding; polite-sounding; plausible (e.g. excuse); glib
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
how; in what way; how (much); to what extent; however (much); no matter how
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamor (for or against); to clamour (for or against)
innermost depths of one's heart