listen!; you see; mind you; remember
eve (esp. Christmas Eve); the night before
affectation; pretension; posturing; posing as; behaving as; acting like
founder; originator; pioneer
so much; so often; oh, yes!; that's it; that's right; quite
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
oh; right; I see; OK; gotcha
such; like that; that sort of
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
participation; joining; entry
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
heh heh heh; tee-hee; giggle
barefaced (e.g. lie); transparent; with feigned ignorance; pretending not to know; pure white; very clear
stupid; foolish; idiotic; fool; idiot; blockhead
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
to come off (of a button, handle, lid, etc.); to go away (of a fever, pain, swelling, etc.); to disappear; to be harvested; to be picked; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)
to feel; to sense; to be moved (by); to be touched (by); to become infected with (an illness); to catch
to become aroused (of emotions, nerves, etc.); to become excited; to become stirred up; to be proud; to be haughty; to be pompous
emotion; feeling; feelings; sentiment
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
department (in an organization, company, etc.); division; club (at a school, university, etc.); team; part; portion
how; in what way; how about
naming (esp. of a commercial product or company); branding
about; on; regarding; per; for every
various; a variety of; variously; in various ways; various things; this and that
dangerous; risky; awful; terrible; terrific; amazing
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
weird; strange; mysterious
the times; the world; society
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
to gather; to collect; to assemble
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
life; living; livelihood; (one's) living
shh!; shush!; hush!; shoo!; scram!