to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen
display and sale of new products
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
improper; immodest; disgraceful; shameful; vulgar; low
advanced materials; new high-tech materials
(on) land; ground; shore; track-and-field events
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
our gracious (e.g. Queen); honorific that attaches to name of a person or thing that has bestowed grace or favour upon you
corridor; hallway; passageway
starfish; sea star; asteroid; northern Pacific seastar (Asterias amurensis)
to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to infer (from); to deduce; to think (something) through; to ponder deeply
southern country; southern provinces; southern lands
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am
search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry
confession; acknowledgement; acknowledgment
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
to thrust down; to push off
limited; limiting; restrictive
ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
dissenting opinion; opposite viewpoint; contraview
interest; eagerness; enthusiasm
home ground; home field; one's haunt; one's stamping ground; one's domain
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
working overtime; detention; being kept in (e.g. after school)
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type
going straight to the point; cutting it short; as it turns out
wild grasses; field grass; wildflowers
proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
starting line; starting point
complete; whole; perfect; safe