to form a line; to queue up; to line up
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
growing light (e.g. at dawn); pale; appearing dumb; talking in an obvious way
to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
to become clear; to be made public
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
rather; better; instead; if anything
semi-transparent; translucent
(face) mask; (facial) features; looks; mask (e.g. for circuit etching)
close adhesion; sticking firmly to; relating closely to; having relevance to; contact printing
thin; pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.) not much (of a presence)
mask; disguise; guise; mask
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely
light; faint; pale; fleeting
glamorous; charming; beguiling; bewitching; beautiful; fascinatingly elegant
reflection; reverberation; reflex; reflexes
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
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
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
air-permeability; breathability
transparency; permeability
to surpass; to outstrip; to excel
skin; outer skin; integument; husk; hull; shell
ingredient; (raw) material; unprocessed timber; raw timber; subject matter; topic
to use; to make use of; to utilize; to utilise
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)
magic; sorcery; incantation
equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent
to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
in spite of; nevertheless; although; despite; no matter the; regardless of
to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes