was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
look!; look out!; hey!; look at me!; there you are!
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate
(really) terrible; awful; (very) nasty; (extremely) harsh; severe
wow!; oh!; yeah!; alright!; waah!; boohoo!
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
to scold; to chide; to rebuke; to reprimand
to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
mistake; error; fault; slip; blunder; omission
reflection; reconsideration; introspection; regret; repentance; remorse
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land
to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided
dreadful; terrible; horrible; fearsome; formidable; awesome
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction
laboratory testing bench; laboratory table; subject of an experiment; (human) guinea pig
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
to express (orally); to put into words; to say out loud
impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
(stare or glare with) scornful eyes; reproachful eyes; disgusted eyes
antiquity; the previous era
somehow (or other); for some reason; without knowing why; something (or other); some ... or other
complex; complicated; intricate; mixed (feelings)
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
consequence; outcome; result; blame