recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
advantage; benefit; profit; interest
locational advantage; advantageous position
home area; home town; local
unfavorable conditions; unfavourable conditions
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
duration; continuance; survival; persistence; retention
to fear; to doubt; to have misgivings about; to worry about; to be anxious about; to be apprehensive about
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another
one may well say so, but ...; even more than
to be enrolled (in a college, course of study, etc.); to be a member (of an organization)
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
to mourn; to lament; to be sorry; to regret; to repent
regret; chagrin; mortification; freedom from obstructive thoughts
letting (someone) die without helping
resentment; indignation; anger
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
worst; worst-case (scenario)
to visit; to call on; to arrive (season, time, situation, etc.); to come; (arch.) to make a sound; (arch.) to send a letter
quiet; calm; easily; comfortably; distant; far-off
directly under; falling perpendicularly
ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land
to go by; to cross; to pass by; to flash across
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
one country; whole country; hotheaded; stubborn
the place for; the time for; the level of
neighbouring country; neighboring country; adjacent country
route; course; path; one's future course (e.g. after graduating high school)
each nation; many nations; many countries
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag