advance notice; previous note; preliminary announcement; trailer (film, TV); preview
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
door (Western-style, car, etc.)
door; gate; opening; title page
to open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to open (for business, etc.); to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
mechanism; mechanical parts; jack-in-the-box
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
laws of nature; physical laws; physics
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
house hunting; searching an entire house; searching a house thoroughly
tension; mental strain; nervousness
one's post; place of work; workplace
to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate
100,000; hundred thousand
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
copy; photocopy; blurb on a book jacket; catch copy
other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
good customer; prime customer; valued clientele
register of names; list of names; roll; register; roster
detective work; detective industry
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
patron (of the arts, an artist, etc.); patroness; sugar daddy; man who provides for a woman (e.g. a geisha); patron; master
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
isolation; cut off; blockade; quarantine; interception; deprivation
power; authority; jurisdiction