dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
unveiling; debut; introduction
brush tip; first on a list; head; chief
story; tale; legend; plot; storyline
to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
ugly; unattractive; unsightly; unseemly
The Phantom of the Opera (musical, novel, film, etc.)
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
wherein; therein; thereinto
to abbreviate; to omit; to take; to capture
to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)
certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly
to be fragrant; to smell (good); to stink; to smell (bad); to glow; to be bright
to be born again; to make a fresh start in life
this world; this life; this generation; present day
one-sided; unilateral; arbitrary
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
how long; how far; how much
way of writing; manner of writing; penmanship (esp. used in old textbooks); calligraphy; format (e.g. of a report); stroke order of a character
guess; conjecture; surmise
go that far; to that extent
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
to approach; to draw near; to get close; to get acquainted with; to get closer to; to get to know
bluff; false show of power; bold front
to become a (bad) habit; to get accustomed to
to whine; to make feeble complaints
to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)
to talk on and on; to rattle on; to keep on talking (without pause)
shift the responsibility (for something) on to (someone); pass the buck