illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
(medical) doctor; physician
choice; selection; diagnosis; medical opinion; judgement; opinion
oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally
consciousness or awareness of being ill
question; inquiry; enquiry
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding
generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds
poor-quality; shoddy; unskillful; inexpert; unlucky
confidence; trust; faith; credit (finance)
symbol; sign; (secret) price mark; secret language; code
war; fighting; fierce competition
honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly
dimness; obscurity; indistinctness; unclear; unintelligible
use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
personal; individual; private
testimony; (verbal) evidence
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different
walking sideways; staggering; striding; being rampant; being widespread; being prevalent
fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
otherwise; or else; if not
postwar period; period after Second World War
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
professional; careerman; worker
overflowing; flood; inundation; oversupply; plethora
scene; spectacle; sight; view
example; simile; metaphor; allegory
I would rather; I would as lief do; strong preference
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
major incident; major happening; big scandal
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
to make a mess; to perpetrate; to do; to finish up; to be guilty of
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)