to change places; to relieve one another; to replace someone
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
process; course; mechanism
interior; inside; internal
ago; since; before; previous
following (e.g. someone's opinion); being servile to; adherence; compliance; emulation; mimicking
having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something
before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
to not understand; to not (quite) know; to be unsure; to be unable to tell
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
royal capital; imperial capital
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall
guidance; lead; guide; primer; influence; connections
in that way; like that; that way
absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)
originally; by nature; from the start
to leave as it is; to defer
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
site; point on a map; spot
opaque; obscure; opacity; obscurity; unclear; unpredictable
to be able to manage somehow or another
vague; obscure; indistinct; hazy; ambiguous
to satisfy (conditions, one's appetite, etc.); to meet (e.g. demands); to fulfill; to fill (e.g. a cup); to pack; to supply
commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane
make-up; makeup; cosmetics
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
keep ...-ing; have been ...-ing; leaving (something) on; leaving (something) still in use
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
to supplement; to make up for; to compensate for; to cover (a shortage, loss, etc.); to fill (e.g. a vacancy)
to be ready; to be prepared; to be in order; to be put in order; to be adjusted; to be regulated
beautiful woman; (a) beauty
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
ugly; unattractive; unsightly; unseemly
beauty or ugliness; personal appearance; looks
to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for
(not) particularly; (not) especially; (not) specially; separately; apart; additionally
to withdraw from (a deal); to wash one's hands of; to lead by the hand
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)