near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
dweller; inhabitant; resident; user (of a website)
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
testimony; (verbal) evidence
end; conclusion; last; final; no sooner than; once
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
book; volume; this; present; main; head
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
to tie; to bind; to bear (fruit); to close (e.g. deal); to confirm; to connect (two distant places); to close tightly
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is
moustache; beard; whiskers (on a cat, etc.); feelers (on an insect, etc.); shadow (on a candlestick chart)
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
hard struggle; strenuous effort
according to; reads; reading; is written; says; states
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
to translate; to interpret
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
little while; short time; (arch.) an hour; half-hour; half an hour
preface; foreword; introduction
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
such ... as; or some such
that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you
dictionary; lexicon; (arch.) letter of resignation
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
to raise one's face; to lift one's head; to raise one's eyes
to ask; to enquire; to query
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
destruction by fire; losing in a fire; being burnt down
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair