to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
which way; which direction; which one (esp. of two alternatives); who
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
previous generation (e.g. one's parents); family predecessor; predecessor; previous age
to reach; to get to; to arrive at
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
birth; creation; formation
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
slim; slender; lithe; smoothly; without resistance; without trouble
time; hour; period; class
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
origin; source; beginning; starting point
how; in what way; by what means
to be embarrassed for a reply
beginning; outset; first; onset
reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
somehow; for some reason; without knowing why
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial
assumption; supposition; hypothesis
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
instant; moment; for an instant
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
odd reply; amusing answer; oddball response
wherein; therein; thereinto
to roll around laughing; to fold up; to hold one's sides with laughter
no!; no no!; no, not at all
to stay behind; to remain; to work overtime
of the time; at the time; of the hour; in vogue; sought after
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed