lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
questionnaire; survey; poll
totalization; totalisation; aggregation; tally (e.g. of votes); adding up; summing up
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
a bit better than; not much more than; not much different from
indicate reason; infers some protest
to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get
collar; color; colour; hair colouring (coloring); calla (variety of arum lily)
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
to stop talking; to break off; to pause
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
make-up; makeup; cosmetics
accessory (fashion); jewelry; accessory (audio, car, camera, etc.)
all; everything; entirety; absolutely (not); (not) at all; (none) whatsoever
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
neat (neatly); tidy; trim
stealthily; secretly; in secret
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
image; figure; figure; form; image
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
imagination; supposition; guess
gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
brand items; brand-name goods
body; oneself; one's place; one's position; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.)
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
tension; mental strain; nervousness
now that you mention it; come to think of it; that reminds me; on that subject; speaking of which
stale; hackneyed; cliched
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
the south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
development; exploitation
whole; all; general; gross; entire; overall