common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
impossible; unlikely; improbable
tenth day of the month; ten days
to watch intently; to stare
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
arrest; apprehension; capture
government forces; loyalist army
to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of; to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title)
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
letter; missive; note; mail
to spell; to write; to compose; to bind (e.g. documents); to patch
(nature of a) crime; (criminal) charge
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable
to rub on; to rub against; to wipe on; to lay the blame on
at a stroke; with a single swoop
exact calculation; squaring of accounts; adjustment
ordinary; run-of-the-mill; usual
to drive to death (e.g. by suicide); to cause to die
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
life and death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
example; simile; metaphor; allegory
to accept; to receive; to agree
to be lost in deep thought; to be deeply immersed in thought
details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
my; one's own; I ...; one ...
people; men and women; each person; everybody
phantom; vision; illusion