huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
reduction; curtailment; cut; cutback; scaling down; contraction
sub; substitute; reserve; sub-
liking; taste; fancy; wish; desire; choice
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
frame; framework; border; box; limit; restriction; category
coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other; street traffic; highway
arranging in a line; standing in a row; parallel (electronics, computing, etc.)
owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)
report (of news); reporting; news; information; (media) coverage
picking out; choosing; picking (someone) up (in a vehicle); pickup (in a record player); (phono) cartridge; pickup (truck)
newspaper story (article, account)
scrap (metal); clipping (from a newspaper, magazine, etc.); cutting; scrapbook
something or other; this and that; one thing this, another thing that; blah blah blah
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
context (of a passage); line of thought; context (of a matter, event, etc.); circumstances; background
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
heading; headline; index; headword
pronunciation; reading (e.g. of a kanji); way of reading (out loud); interpretation (e.g. of a text); reading
outline; summary; gist; basic points
to increase; to add to; to augment
building addition or extension; an annex
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
urbanization; urbanisation
high-rise (building); multistory; multistoried; high (altitude); upper (atmosphere, air current, etc.)
change to ...; becoming ...; making into ...; -ization; -ification
hills and fields; countryside
to cut open; to clear (land); to cut (a path, road, etc.); to carve out (a new career, future, etc.); to open up (a new field)
layer; stratum; class; stratum; sheaf; counter for stories (of a building)
to smear all over; to slather on; to besmear; to paint heavily; to spread thickly; to bedaub (with paint)
extension and structural alteration of building
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
to extend (building); to build on
article; news story; report; account
reason; circumstances; grounds; because of; due to; as a result of
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
load; loading; weight (of a load)
straying; wandering (off course)
criticism; blame; censure; attack; reproach
that said; that being said