behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
out of character; unlike one
door; gate; opening; title page
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
taking no notice; ignoring; not even looking at
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
first of all; at once; right away; for now; for the time being
book; volume; this; present; main; head
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
discovery; detection; finding
use; utilization; utilisation; application
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
way to use something; treatment; management (of help)
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
clue; lead; key; handhold; hold
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
work (film, book); production; creation; turning (something) out
name; given name; first name
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
to recover; to rally; to improve; to pick up
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)