ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
inside one's heart; in one's mind
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
moment; brief space of time
remarkable; striking; brilliant; splendid; spectacular; wonderful
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
to approach; to draw near
difficult to ...; hard to ...
conspicuously; noticeably; remarkably; especially; particularly
soft; tender; gentle; mild; informal; light
intimacy; affection; familiarity
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
done; just done; just finished
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
writing paper; stationery; notepaper
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
to talk to oneself; to mutter
to come out; to appear; to turn up; to emerge
gait; walk; stride; trace (e.g. of route taken by hunted criminal); track; trail
(a) weakness; shortcoming; failing; sore point
connection (to a person, place, etc.); relation; affinity
written investigation; report of an investigation; school record (on a student); transcript (of grades)
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce
weak (constitution); sickly; feeble; in poor health
to hit; to run into; to light on; to strike into; to come against; to deadlock
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
certain; sure; doubtless; I have no doubt; You can depend on it; It's a safe bet
to chuckle to oneself; to gloat (over)
entering a room; studying under a Buddhist teacher
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
to feel depressed; to be down
originally; essentially; naturally; in the first place; to begin with
to be congenial; to agree with one; to be in one's nature
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
number of events (e.g. accidents, crimes, meetings, housing starts, hits on a web page)
sidewise crawl (e.g. of a crab); crawling sideways; leafhopper (insect); jassid; sidewinder (Crotalus cerastes); levelling off (of prices, etc.)