it's no joke; gimme a break!
equality; impartiality; evenness
everyday conversation; day-to-day conversation
wife and children; (arch.) wife
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
(it) goes without saying; needn't be said; that should rather be left unsaid
class; heading; group; category
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
quantity; amount; generosity; magnanimity; pramana (means by which one gains accurate and valid knowledge; in Indian philosophy)
custom; practice; convention; precedent
in accordance with; according to
official; governmental; public (use, matter, forum, etc.); common; being public knowledge; being out in the open
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
easily bored; quick to lose interest; fickle; capricious
infancy; childhood; tender age
collapse; break; cave-in; market decline; market crash
husband and wife; married couple
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
pulverization; pulverisation; reducing to pieces; crushing; smashing
restoration; repair; mending
to need; to demand; to take; to require
to scatter away; to blast away; to blow away (via explosion)
position (where one is standing); place where one stands; position; stance; standpoint
legitimate son (esp. eldest son); heir
of great promise; with a promising future
general; popular; common; typical
to take a peep at; to catch a glimpse of
unprecedented; never seen before
to rage; to fly into a rage; to become furious
to injure; to damage; to kill; to hinder; to obstruct
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
library; book storage; stack room; archive (file)
reading partway; leaving half-read
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
one by one; one after another; successively
to flick off; to give (someone) the flick; to send (something) flying; to hit (a person); to knock down