far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
contract; compact; agreement
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
privilege; special favor; special favour; benefit; prerogative; perk
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
allotment; apportionment; share; dividend
hour; o'clock; (specified) time; when ...; during ...
payment in advance; advance payment; payment on delivery (e.g. business-reply mail, collect phone calls); forerunner
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
economical; bargain; good value; good-value
100,000; hundred thousand
major recession; serious (economic) depression; Great Depression
popularity; public favor; condition (e.g. market); tone; character
economy; economics; finance; (one's) finances; being economical; economy
senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer
company; corporation; workplace
three times (as much); treble; triple; threefold
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
plausible (but untrue); credible (e.g. of a lie); specious; truthy
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
prediction; prophecy; prognostication
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
2008 financial crisis; global financial crisis; GFC
good news; gospel (teachings or revelations of Jesus Christ)
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
door (Western-style, car, etc.)
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen