noon; midday; daytime; lunch
soft and flaky (pie, potatoes, squash, etc.); fluffy; crumbly; being pleased with oneself; beaming happily; chuckling to oneself
distant view; looking from a distance; good long distance vision; farsightedness
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being
to spread; to be propagated
to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten
half in doubt; half-convinced; dubious; incredulous
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
place; room; margin; scope
such; this sort of; like this
unprecedented; never happened before; first time in history
as ... as one can; as ... as possible; as much as possible
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
mysterious disappearance; being spirited away
around the world; throughout the world
how many years; how long; what year
common; shared; to be common (to); to be shared (by); -wide
disappearance; running away; going missing; absconding
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); still; all the same; even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
unique; individual; original; unusual
quality (of a product or a service)
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
suddenly; abruptly; unexpectedly
to become animated; to liven up; to become active
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
calabash (Lagenaria siceraria); bottle gourd; gourd (container); calabash
frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.); scene; time block (e.g. of a class schedule)
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance
like this; this sort; this way
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
to make round; to roll up; to seduce; to cajole; to round off (a fraction); (arch.) to lump together