matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
familiar (spirit or otherwise magical creature which aids a magician or sorcerer); familiar spirit
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
process; course; mechanism
postwar period; period after Second World War
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
potato (Solanum tuberosum)
immediately; right away; at once; instantly
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
to burn hotly; to burn redly; to lose one's temper; to get mad; to be upset
go that far; to that extent
whim; vagary; capriciousness; eccentricity
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
(social) class; rank; grade
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
to divide (into); to split (into); to share; to distribute; to distinguish; to discriminate; to break up (a fight)
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter
(it) goes without saying; needn't be said; that should rather be left unsaid
in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to
few decades; many decades; several decades
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
to pass (of time); to elapse
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
order (from one's superior); command; what you say; (someone's) words
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
to take someone (to some place); to take someone along; to lead someone away
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs