splint; brace; epithesis; splice; support (e.g. for a plant); prop
bad condition; not to work out (i.e. a deal); disagreement; break-off; disorder; slump
countermeasure; counter-measure
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
crime syndicate; criminal syndicate
group; party; team; organization; organisation; association
sympathy; empathy; response
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
making use of; application; practical use; operation; handling; steering (esp. a boat)
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
unprecedented; never seen before
change; transformation; innovation; Reformation
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
possibly; by some possibility; perhaps
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
stiffening; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; ossification; petrification
suddenly and in a loud voice (e.g. sobbing)
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
self-consciousness; self-awareness
extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd
intelligence agency; secret service
arrest; apprehension; capture
freedom; free man; free woman
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
free; unfettered; according to one's own whims; doing as one likes
only; just; since; after; remaining (in a particular state)
common; shared; to be common (to); to be shared (by); -wide
coexistence; living together
to feel irritated; to feel offended; to feel angry; to feel sick; to feel nauseous
all manner of (verbal) abuse; all kinds of names; abusive language; torrent of abuse; stream of insults
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
to develop a relationship; to build intimacy; to deepen a friendship; to get acquainted
cancellation; liquidation; resolution; reduction (e.g. of stress)
erratic; offbeat; wild; extraordinary