neighboring countries; surrounding countries
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge
outline; summary; overview; synopsis; abstract; abridgment
to keep in mind; to memorize
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
to step on a landmine; to really step in it; to screw up; to open up a can of worms
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair
study; diligence; discount; reduction
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
in person; personally; directly
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
passion; temper; irritability
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
really; very; extremely; (not) anything; (not) at all; (not) a bit
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
to be silent; to say nothing
dignity; eminent; high ranking; high-order (digit, bit, etc.)
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
to stand; to rise; to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position); to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
legal wife; lawful wife; first wife (in polygamous relationship)
limit; limits; degree; extent; the end; the last; as long as ...
each (every) time; whenever
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
management; administration; cutting up and serving food; cut and fill (e.g. earthwork)
to admonish; to persuade; to warn; to remonstrate
stealthily; secretly; in secret
wholesale delegation; hundred-percent subcontracting; leaving all the decision-making to somebody else