expansion; swelling; increase; growth
revisiting; visiting again
confident; assured; self-assured; bullish
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
failure (i.e. an unsuccessful work); flop; dud; bomb
before or since; neither before nor after; no other time in one's life; stressing a particular moment or event as being unique or most extreme
diversion; putting something to another use
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement
telecommunications; correspondence
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
left; left-hand side; left hand; the left (wing); leftist; fondness for alcohol
to train; to teach; to acquire (information); to learn; to stock; to stock up on
scheme; plot; artifice; stratagem; trick
to fit; to get into; to be fit for (a job, etc.); to be suited for; to fall into; to plunge into
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
certification; attestation; authentication; Imperial attestation
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
variables; uncertain elements; uncertainties; imponderables
three persons; three parties
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
collapse; break; cave-in; market decline; market crash
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding
to come to like; to become fond of; to fall in love
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
arm; ability; skill; (physical) strength
minimum; (very) least; at least some (comfort, etc.); only (consolation, saving grace, etc.); sole
recompense; indemnity; atonement
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
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
again; once more; a second time
to cut (cloth, paper, etc.); to cut off; to sever (ties); to break off (relations); to cut off (a supply route, enemy's retreat, etc.); to block
clearly (understand, see, hear, etc.); distinctly; perfectly; as if it were right in front of one
to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire
influence; power; might; influence (of stones)