call; summons; convening; convocation
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
to discuss; to talk together
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
-ness; indicates assertion; come (on); come now; er; um; indicates scrutiny, critique or mistrust
clue; lead; key; handhold; hold
few; little; small (amount); low; scarce; insufficient
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
gag order; gag rule; gag law
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
watchful waiting; careful supervision
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
such; like that; that sort of
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly; actually
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
(dead) body; corpse; remains
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
to join (hands); to take (each other's hands); to scramble for; to struggle for; to pay attention to; to take notice of
while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily
useless; futile; unnecessary; needless; not on business; unrelated
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to evade (question, subject); to ward off; to avert; to put aside
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to include (in a group or scope); to instruct; to make one understand; to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication); to put in (someone's) mouth
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
judgment; judgement; divination; judgement
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
deadlock; stalemate; standstill; hopeless position; lost game; zugzwang
to go out to meet; to receive; to call for; to summon; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)
search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry
difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight; rough going; running into trouble; proceeding with difficulty
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
possibility; chance; potential; potentiality; possibility (modal property of a proposition containing no logical contradiction)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)
service station; gas station; shortstop; sporty sedan; steamship; SS; Secret Service (US)