grazing; skimming; almost touching; barely; just; narrowly
the dead; ghost; person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.); person with a blind lust (for)
to make an appearance; to show up
remote control; remote operation
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
(Confucian) temple; church; sanctuary
ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
to emboss; to carve in relief; to bring to the fore; to accentuate; to throw into relief
chief; main; principal; major
defense; defence; protection
hostile nature; inimical character
exclusion; removal; elimination; clearing away; getting rid of
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
formless; immaterial; intangible; incorporeal; abstract; moral
indeterminate form; undefined; indefinite; unstructured
God; god; deity; ace; king; superior person
failure; defective article; dead loss; good-for-nothing; worthless person; flop
reproduction; duplication; reprinting
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
original; unique (e.g. product); signature; exclusive
mixing; mixture; meld; miscegenation
all parts; various parts; every department
correspondence; being in accordance with; anaphora
pointed end; tip; point; forefront; vanguard; spearhead
to (see and) choose; to select; to diagnose (as); to judge; to estimate; to liken (to)
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
to distribute; to arrange; to arrange; to lay out (as in decorating); (arch.) to marry off; (arch.) to exile
more than enough; more than ample; exhaustive
to have no chance (of succeeding)