friendly chat; pleasant chat; lighthearted talk; friendly conversation
beautiful face; good looks; beauty
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends); planetary ring
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around
to pretend; to act (as if)
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
observation; survey; watching
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
communication skills; communication ability
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
within expectations; as expected; within the scope of hypothesis or assumption
rock (in rock-paper-scissors); stone; ungh; gulp; rumbling (of an empty stomach); growling
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
desperately; for one's dear life
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
companion; company; tritagonist; second supporting character
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
to have one's attention caught (by); to be distracted (by); to be preoccupied (with); to be captivated (by); to be absorbed (in)
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
loose; lenient; lax; gentle (curve, slope, etc.); slow; weak; soft
chance; opportunity; occasion
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
secret information; intelligence
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
opposite side; other side; over there; ahead; destination; there (somewhere distant, esp. abroad)
gold (metal); gold (color); gold (medal); first place (prize); something of great value; something golden (e.g. silence); money
not worth considering; out of the question
although I say; although one might say; although called
good(-tasting); nice; delicious; attractive (offer, opportunity, etc.); appealing; convenient
foreign capital (e.g. in a company); foreign investment
to obtain; to come into possession of; to get hold of; to get one's hands on
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
strategic arrangement of go stones at the beginning of a game; opening moves; preparations; preparatory steps; arrangements
to pass (of time); to elapse
that far; so far; to that extent; stop!; not one step further!
to be too late; to be too slow
easily; readily; quickly; lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply
to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)