daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
fortune-telling; divination; fortune-teller; diviner
spiritualist; medium; necromancer
old woman; joker (in old maid)
last night; yesterday evening
plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward
omen; sign; notice; indication
doomed (business, trade, etc.); in a bad state; poor
one eye; discerning eye; excellent judgement
wrinkled; full of wrinkles
in advance; beforehand; previously; ahead of time
mouse; rat; dark gray; slate gray
to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up
innumerable; countless; numberless
before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
unable to resist; unable to suppress
audience (with a person of high standing); diameter of a tree trunk at eye level
to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time
exposed; scanty; bare; public; open
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
enjoying popularity among the customers
diviner; fortune teller; soothsayer
important; essential; significant; major; key; principal
old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence
slight; minor; trifling; considerable; proper; decent
rough; crude; sloppy; miscellaneous
muzzling (someone); gagging; forcing (someone) to keep quiet (about something); silencing (someone); killing (someone) to prevent them from revealing something
secret information; intelligence
because; the reason is; if you want to know why
matter; thing; affair; circumstance
to melt; to liquefy; to dissolve (in a liquid); to be soluble (in); to be used up (of money or time); to be wasted
few decades; many decades; several decades
confidence; trust; faith; credit
innocence; guiltlessness; absence of the fact; insubstantiality; (arch.) insincerity; (arch.) dishonesty