top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
intention; idea; inclination; wish
request for a police search; application to the police to search for a missing person
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now
cosmopolitan; world citizen
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
hostility; antagonism; opposition
if it is the case that ...
propagation (e.g. a religion); proselytizing; missionary work
heathen; heretic; pagan; nonconformist; freethinker; iconoclast
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
accumulation; accumulate; store
complete; whole; perfect; safe
protection; safeguard; guardianship; preservation; conservation
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
to force someone to clamp with their teeth; to force into someone's mouth (e.g. a gag); to wedge into a space; to inflict (a blow); to deal (a hit); to pull (a joke)
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
together; jointly; at the same time; with; both
cool; indifferent; apathetic; cold; cold-hearted; heartless
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
recovery; rescue; recapture
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
unofficial offer (esp. job offer); tentative decision
plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
to let go of; to release; to part with (e.g. a possession); to relinquish; to send away (e.g. one's child); to let go
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
constitution (physical); physical make-up; predisposition (to disease); character (of a group, organization, etc.); innate characteristics; make-up
(weather) front; front line; forward area; action zone
exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste
that is to say; so that means
to be evident; to be obvious; to understand completely
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
recovery; undoing; recall
forcibly; against one's will