important person; strategic person; key figure
a mere ...; only a ...; insignificant
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
celebrity; famous person; public figure; big name
greeting; a fine thing to say
handshake; reconciliation; joining hands; cooperation
lower grade; low class; junior (officer)
worker; (manual) laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker
toil; labor; labour; painstaking piece of work; (a) work involving considerable effort
juice; soft drink (usu. fruit-based); sweetened drink
cola (carbonated soft drink); kola tree (Cola acuminata, etc.); cola tree
coffee (hot, as opposed to iced)
black; black (coffee); exploitative (company); overly harsh; boldface; blackface
amount of sugar; sugar content
fat; grease; blubber; lard; suet
calming down; settling down; quieting down; sedation
a little difficult; slightly hard; not feasible; not possible
laptop (computer); notebook (computer)
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)
to stare back at; to look back at
computer graphics; CG; computer-generated imagery; CGI
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
smooth (i.e. without problems)
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
mixture; intermixture; mixing up; contamination
substitution; replacement; permutation; substitution; displacement
retailing; repeating (someone else's words, opinion, etc.); parroting; echoing
observation; survey; measurement; opinion; prediction; thinking