ancient times; distant past; antiquity
common people; ordinary people; masses
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
remains; traces; (the sorrow of) parting; end
unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; "all Greek to me"; double Dutch; (something) incomprehensible
to be dispirited; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to lose heart
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
to connect; to tie; to fasten; to transfer (phone call)
sticky; persistent; insistent; nagging
fresh off the farm; inexperienced
fresh; refreshing; invigorating; clear (e.g. voice); fluent; eloquent
brand; make; description; trading name of stocks and securities
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
way of taking (a pill); way of drinking
herbal tea; herb tea; tisane
handmade; homegrown; hand-crafted; homemade
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity
house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.); graduate school; postgraduate school; institution (often medical); institutional building; sub-temple; minor temple building
equally; thoroughly; all over; uniformly; without exception; all around
suspension; stoppage; discontinuance; interruption
double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n
at first; in the beginning; originally
number of times; frequency; count
very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral
(medical) treatment; care; therapy; cure; remedy
joint establishment (esp. schools of different levels or different courses of study); establishment as an annex (e.g. of a school); juxtaposition; placing side by side
materials; data; document
the number of people; many people; a large number of people; (counted as an) adult
scale; scope; plan; structure
sick person; patient; invalid
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
medical care; medical treatment