to tame (e.g. animal); to domesticate
drafting; requisition; impressment; commandeering; expropriation
one's confidant; trusted friend; trusted retainer
main theater of war; principal battlefield
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
about when; about what time; how soon
to glance at; to look at; to scan; to run one's eyes over
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
twentieth day of the month; twenty days
fifteenth day of the month; fifteen days
seventh day of the month; seven days
number of days; period of days; daily interest rate
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
incarnation; impersonation; personification; avatar
small hill; low hill; hillock
depression; lowlands; low ground; bottom land; plain
whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
basin (e.g. between mountains)
... is the reason; ... is my excuse
residence; abode; dwelling
to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago
to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
introduction; bringing in; leading in; installation
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
toothed whale; odontocete
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
there in body, but not in spirit; distracted; in one ear and out the other
half-hearted reply; vague answer; reluctant answer
residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
breaking off; snapping off; suddenly stopping