departure; setting off; being used up; being consumed; passage of time; lapse; rehearsal
lip service; mere words; professions; lips; mouth; snout
duration; continuance; survival; persistence; retention
maintaining the status quo
to extol; to sing the praises of; to celebrate; to declare; to stipulate; to express
to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall
petty; small-minded; stingy; poor (performance, etc.); bad; unskilled
monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
ring; loop (of rope); halo (of an angel)
body; physique; build; stature
to roll; to wheel; to turn over; to tip over; to leave; to buy and sell (quickly for a profit)
(musical) time; tempo; beat; the moment; the instance; chance
purple; violet; Lithospermum erythrorhizon (species of gromwell); type of soy sauce
theory; doctrine; opinion; view; rumour; rumor
Pan (Greek god); bang; boom; crack
fanfare; flourish of trumpets
entry (on stage); appearance (on screen); entrance; introduction (into a market)
credit roll (at the end of a film or TV show); closing credits; end credits
going along with something; following the crowd; treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner
failure; collapse; breakdown; break-up; bankruptcy
you could say; you might say; verging on the
ideal situation; ideal world; perfect world; utopia
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone; sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki
contortion; distortion; warp; kink (in one's character); twist
treaty; pact; convention; agreement
stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation
how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
two times; twice; two degrees
to lie down; to throw oneself down
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
just before one's eyes; in one's presence; personally
to be surprised; to be astonished
to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear
to yell; to rant; to rave