greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.)
degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about
distance; range; difference (e.g. in opinion); gap; metric
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
according to plan; as planned; on target
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
wide-open; frank; open; candid
to be seen; to be visible; to look; to seem; to come
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience
to show; to display; to make (something or someone) look ...; to present an appearance of ...; to make (something) worth watching; to be entertaining; to have (something) looked at (by a specialist)
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
older sister; elder sister
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself (as); to change (into); to transform; to change radically (for the better)
to slip into; to crawl into (under); to conceal oneself (under); to sneak into; to infiltrate
companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
unmistakable; evident; obvious; certain; beyond doubt
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
quiver; quaver; flutter; statistical fluctuation
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer
suffix for familiar person
face; visage; look; (facial) expression; honor (honour); face; influence
to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise
already; yet; soon; shortly; further; more
every corner; every nook and cranny; all the ins and outs
to get tired of; to tire of; to lose interest in; to become sated; to become satiated; to have one's fill
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
feeling; sense; impression
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to go past; to pass; to pass by
several people; a few people
being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; by the way
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
explanation (e.g. for one's actions); excuse; justification; defense; defence