public affair; government matter; duke; prince; Sir; Lord
convenient; favorable; favourable; expedient; expedience
roundabout; indirect; circuitous; ignorant (of the world)
to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan
new functionality; new feature
falling (down) unconscious; fainting (and collapsing)
advance party; advance team; advance group; vanguard unit
(it was) no bother at all; not at all; it was nothing
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
half; biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage; half (of a game); halfback; 9-hole half (of a round)
careful examination; close observation
distinction; discrimination; distinguishing; discernment
mediation; agency; carrying (germs, diseases, etc.); transmission; mediation (in Hegelianism)
hometown; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
to divert (e.g. one's mind); to distract; to relieve (boredom, sorrow, etc.); to conceal (e.g. one's grief with a smile); to hide; to shift (the conversation)
commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane
process of milling (grains); miller
to saw; to grind (e.g. coffee beans); to mill
flour; meal; powder; heroin
gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull
to paint a picture; to draw a picture
to launch; to shoot up; (of waves) to dash; to wash up (ashore); to finish (e.g. a theater run, sumo tournament); to close
practice by repetition; learning by rote
this world; this life; this generation; present day
territory; domain; field; area; domain; region
powerful person; influential person
massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
so (e.g. so much, so close, so many, so few)
prognostic symptoms; after-effect; sequela
to attack; to destroy; to defeat; to conquer; to avenge
remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)
discretion; consideration; allowance
(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly
nature of the locality; character of a place; local colour; local color