interest; appeal; attraction; fun
episode; anecdote; vignette
light; well-lit; bright (of a colour); brightly-coloured; cheerful; bright; encouraging (for the future of a project, etc.)
personality; character; personal appearance; gentility
complete stranger; total stranger
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie
to give a glance (at); to take one look at
relatedness; associativity; relation; relationship; relevance
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
proper; respectable; decent; honest
report (of news); reporting; news; information; (media) coverage
way; method; means; resource; course
sympathy; compassion; pity
(some) more; even more; longer; further
dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
great; grand; extensive; large-scale
memorial service for the dead; holding a service
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
to disclose; to divulge; to expose; to open (a grave); to dig out
great difference; big difference; wide margin
no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable
change again and again; seesaw back and forth; being in a state of flux; backtracking repeatedly
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
unattractive; ugly; unstylish; uncool
certain; definite; clear; credible
courteous; decorous; polite
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
to spring; to bound; to be stimulated; to be encouraged; to pay handsomely; to splurge
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
to lay in stock; to replenish stock; to procure; to learn; to find out; to take in
at once; immediately; without delay; promptly
to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
acceleration; speeding up