-ness; indicates assertion; come (on); come now; er; um; indicates scrutiny, critique or mistrust
to (finally) arrive at; to reach (at last); to (manage to) get to; to find one's way to
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
level; standard; level (amount or quantity); level (plane); level (instrument); spirit level
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
leader; leaders; dotted line; reader (textbook); reader (i.e. a person who reads); microreader
affectation; pretension; posturing; posing as; behaving as; acting like
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
home area; home town; local
number one; first; best; most; game; round
soldier; warrior; person of courage; strong person; very capable person
from ancient times; from old times; from time immemorial
kind; sort; species; species
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
newcomer; new figure; new member; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards); Homo sapiens
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
bubble; foam; froth; suds; lather; head (on beer)
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
pitch-black; jet-black; strongly tanned; deeply sunburnt; sooty; black with dirt
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
to run away; to flee; to avoid (a question, responsibility, etc.); to evade; to win without being overtaken; to hold off the other contenders (until the finish)
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as ...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
person from the countryside; countryman; countryfolk; provincial person; bumpkin; hick
if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
friend; companion; comrade; accompaniment; companion (e.g. book); complement
to be able to do; to be possible; to be good at; to do well; to come into existence; to form; to be made
to gather; to collect; to assemble
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
such; like that; that sort of
leaving (fleeing) the capital
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell