steady; sound; solid; reliable; trustworthy
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
unexpected; unforeseen; accidental
important matter; matter of great importance; serious affair; major incident; emergency
gap; opening; break; interval; unguarded moment; carelessness
emergency; accident; worst case; unexpected occurrence
meticulous; careful; discreet; scrupulous; prudent
absolutely every little bit; everything from A to Z; systematically; thoroughly; one after another; successively
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; (putting into) practice; execution (of a program); run
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
secret; private; surreptitious
to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
chair; seat; stool; post; position; seat
privacy; secrecy; confidentiality
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
to serve as; to act as; to fill (the position of); to play the role of; to be in charge of; to hold (a position)
at once; immediately; without delay; promptly
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
by no means; never!; certainly (not); surely (not); something unexpected; emergency
promise; agreement; appointment; engagement; convention; rule
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become indistinct; to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.); to be corrupted
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence; power
to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.); (arch.) to abide by; (arch.) to agree to
to hear; to hear by chance; to hear by accident; to catch (the sound)
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
tight-lipped; able to keep a secret
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (of a book); (one) complete set (of books)
powerful family; powerful clan
private talk; confidential talk; secret talk
as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all
indication; sign; hint; tone (of the market)
to be affected; to put on airs; to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be
to give advice; to counsel; to take part in a consultation
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
to call (someone) to come; to call for; to summon; to always call (someone by a name); to become used to calling
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
battlefield; battleground
to worry (about); to fret (over); to be anxious
to be anxious (about); to be concerned (about); to think out (e.g. a plan); to work out; to investigate
to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off