stillness; silence; quiet; hush; calm; serenity
slim; slender; slight; delicate
great war; great battle; world war
hearsay; rumor; rumour; report
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
fearfully; timidly; nervously; cautiously; gingerly
infection; contagion; becoming infected; being infected (e.g. with harmful ideas); being influenced (by)
game in which the points (or prize) double with each win; exponential increase; rapidly multiplying growth
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
(public) morals and sentiments
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
global scale; worldwide scale
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence; pretense; (a customer) coming to restaurant, ryokan, etc. without a reservation or introduction
dissemination; scattering; sprinkling; spraying
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
human experiment; human experimentation; experiment on a living person
nobleman's illegitimate child; product (of e.g. war); offspring; aftermath
that's the way it is; such is life
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
increase; multiplication; propagation; proliferation
control; restraint; suppression; constraint; curtailment; inhibition
ground-breaking; revolutionary; unprecedented; epoch-making
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
flourish of trumpets; fanfare
announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known
sale; offering for sale; putting on sale; putting on the market; release (for sale)
interruption; discontinuance; suspension; cancellation (of a planned event); calling off
temporary; transitory; short-lived
resistance (to heat, corrosion, etc.); tolerance (to a drug, pain, etc.); resistance (to drugs, pesticides, etc.)
grant; allowance; endowment; bestowal; assignment; conferment
side effect; adverse reaction
inducing; causing; triggering; giving rise to
returned goods; returning purchased goods
stock; inventory; having in stock; being in stock
to be open (to traffic); to lead (to); to flow (of a liquid, current, etc.); to pass (through); to be conveyed (of an intention, meaning, etc.); to be understood (by); to be well versed (in)