incarnation; impersonation; personification; avatar
messenger; envoy; emissary
outline; summary; overview; synopsis; abstract; abridgment
direct; immediate; personal; firsthand
great hurry; great haste; rush
just as one thought; as usual; sure enough
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
within expectations; as expected; within the scope of hypothesis or assumption
individual; private person; personal; private
to reject; to spurn; to turn down; to refuse
that's a different matter; that's a different story
lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
remuneration; recompense; reward; toll
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
to give an answer; to find an answer to a question; to work out a solution
to feel awkward; to feel ashamed; to feel inferior; to feel shy (about doing something)
light; faint; pale; fleeting
while alive; during one's lifetime
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
paying; remunerative; advantageous; profitable
firing one shot at a time; single-shot gun; having only one engine; single-engined aeroplane; one-shot (e.g. story); non-serial
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
duty; function; office; mission; task
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
self-consciousness; self-awareness
the way there; outbound leg; bound for ...; outbound ticket
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting; acceptance
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
not yet known; unknown; strange
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to