payment in advance; advance payment; prepayment
muzzling (someone); gagging; forcing (someone) to keep quiet (about something); silencing (someone); killing (someone) to prevent them from revealing something
to abuse (verbally); to curse at; to shout abuse at; to speak ill of
to clash; to collide; to conflict; to meet (by chance); to come across; to run into
with a broad grin; smirking
to leave (someone) alone; to leave to oneself; to leave (someone) be
madness; craziness; insanity
way; style; ceremony; rite; wedding (ceremony); equation
battle formation; camp; encampment; group; gang; war
idle talk; chit-chat; gossip
to be obsessive (about); to be overly concerned (with); to be particular (about); to pay special attention (to); to get stuck; to be obstructed
moving (dwelling, office, etc.); changing residence
clanging; empty; deserted
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
creation; birth; formation; naissance; construction
name; title; appellation; (under the) pretext (of); pretense
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
100,000,000; one hundred million; 10^8
large amount of money; great cost
municipality; local government; self-governing body; autonomous body
purpose; utility; objective; way to use something
pure gold; solid gold; fine gold
limbless wooden doll; kokeshi doll
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
objet d'art; item of artwork; object; curio
wolf (Canis lupus); wolf in sheep's clothing; womanizer
closing (for the day; of a library, museum, cinema, etc.); closing down (of a library, museum, cinema, etc.)
sitting on the floor grasping one's knees (as in a gym class)
to go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return
coming and going; keeping in touch; visiting each other; street traffic; highway
deductive reasoning; deduction
denial; negation; negation; NOT operation
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably