region; limits; stage; level
count; counting; count of balls and strikes; count (after a knock-down in boxing); count (of radioactivity)
savage (barbaric) land; backward region; undeveloped area
the north; northward; northern direction; northern part (e.g. of a country); northern district
place; situation; position; location
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
substance; essence; real (in economics, vs. nominal, e.g. real interest rate); substantive; substantial
the farthest ends; the furthest ends
you could say; you might say; verging on the
barren land; sterile soil; wasteland
first generation; founder
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
union; alliance; combination; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
armed might; military power; the sword; force
conquest; subjugation; overcoming
unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
that is to say; so that means
to go too far; to go past; to go to extremes; to overdo it
politics of fear; terrorism; reign of terror (esp. in the French revolution)
citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)
to antagonize; to provoke antipathy
final; eventual; ultimate
in order to; for the purpose of; must; should
adopted child (usu. male); son-in-law
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
lineage; stock; descent; strain; blood relationship
various opinions; various theories; various rumors (rumours)
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
since then; from that time; ever since
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)