highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
questions and answers; dialogue
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
voyage; passage; travelling
complete lie; outright lie
much less; to say nothing of
just then; at that time; right then; appropriate moment
poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)
price increase; rise in price
to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
fragment; scrap; piece; shred
to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall
hostile party; enemy side
source of information; intelligence source; message source
return gift; return favour (favor); revenge; change (in a cash transaction)
brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband); older stepbrother
state; state of affairs; appearance; look; sign; indication
beyond expectation; contrary to expectations; unexpectedly
reins; bridle; control; the reins (on)
to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)
society; public; community; social studies
poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?
bloodstained; bloody; covered with blood
pictorial book; picture book; illustrated reference book; identification manual; field guide
earnings from a part-time job
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
worn-out; ragged; crumbling; dry and crumbly; falling (in drops or clumps); scattering
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
just one person; only one
blood relationship; blood relative
fresh off the farm; inexperienced
to take away; to carry off
as much as possible; unbeatably; unsurpassably
spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering