minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
market price; speculation (e.g. on stocks); reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
exceptional; unusual; special; especially; exceptionally; unusually
gossip; government OSI procurement; GOSIP
other companies in the same business; rival firms
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
to reach one's ears; to come to one's knowledge; to hear about; to learn of (by chance)
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
direction; way; person; lady; method of; manner of; care of ...
believer; adherent; devotee; fanboy; fanatic; superfan
how many people; a number of people
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
coincident with; while; simultaneously
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
long ago; already; a long time ago
long military service; having experienced many battles
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
such; like that; that sort of; very
to duck one's head; to pull in one's head; to duck down; to shrug one's shoulders