transactions; dealings; business
settlement; payment of account
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
lead; leading; lead (of a newspaper, etc.); lede; lead (wire); lead (e.g. dog); leash
to have; to possess; to own; to be endowed with
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost
broke; poor; short; skint; having no money
spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham
misrepresentation; false statement
street vendor; stallholder; stallkeeper
guard; sentinel; garrison
and yet; though; when; in spite of
forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
junk; rubbish; trash; garbage; odds and ends
festival; feast; carnival
vice; immorality; corruption
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
very much; very many; more and more
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
to recognize by sound (recognise); to identify by sound; to understand; to be reasonable
to put away; to stow away; to tuck away; to hoard
paltry sum of money; small change; odd money; pittance; chicken feed
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
reduction; diminution; abatement
to think (something) is improper; to question; to have a problem with
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
seeing off; sending off; funeral; escapement
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
complexion; one's colour; one's color; countenance; expression; one's face
to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)