private; non-governmental; non-official; folk; popular
well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person
mobilization; mobilisation
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; expectation; anticipation
making (a report, plan, contract, etc.); drawing up; writing out; preparing; creating (a file, website, account, etc.)
congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
accident; incident; trouble; circumstances; reasons
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval
novel; story; (work of) fiction
to become famous; to go out into the world; to make one's way in the world; to appear
model; prototype; archetype; (sewing) pattern
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
almost; nearly; for the most part; roughly; approximately; about
scoring combination of a 9 and a 1 in oicho-kabu
Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
economic conditions; economic situation; financial situation; financial circumstances
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
engineer; technical expert; technician; craftsperson
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral
outflow; effluence; efflux; outflow (of people, capital, etc.); drain (of gold, talent, etc. from a country); leak (e.g. of personal information)
reading only the important parts; reading here and there; skimming through; reading word by word; reading only the parts one can understand
development; cultivation; application; exploitation (of resources)
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk; to get plastered
bacterium; bacteria; germ
cost performance; cost effectiveness; price-performance ratio; value for money; bang for one's buck
reason; grounds; circumstances
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
antitoxin; antivenin; antivenom
unnecessary; not needed; not necessary
explosive; sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid
large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant
in an instant; in a flash; in the blink of an eye; in no time at all; just like that
cessation; (coming to an) end
survival; remaining; being extant; being left
radioactivity; radiation; radioactive material
intolerable; unbearable; tremendous; out of this world; cannot help (doing); cannot but do
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up