to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial
floor; dance floor; sales floor; floor (of a building); storey
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
corner; section; one horn; pillar (of a group, system, etc.); member (of an organization, etc.); first corner
business; trade; operations; sales
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
some people; a number of people; several people; a few people
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
coffee cup; spinning teacups (amusement ride)
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
fast; quick; early; soon; premature; too soon
unnatural; affected; studied; forced
to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with someone)
to invent a pretext for a quarrel; to pick a fight
to have a talk; to tell a story
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
to respond; to answer; to accept (an invitation, offer, etc.); to comply with (a request, etc.); to suit; to match
to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride
meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; knowing; pregnant (pause)
to sense; to infer; to gather; to pick up on; to get wind of; to perceive
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
hacking; hacking (basketball, rugby, etc.); fouling
internal (e.g. mechanism, feature); built-in; equipped (with)
to use as an intermediary; to worry; to mind; to care
voice; speech; phone (as opposed to a phoneme); speech sound; audio; sound (as opposed to the picture)
to pick up; to gather; to find (and pick up; something someone has dropped); to select; to choose; to get (unexpectedly); to hit upon (luck, an opportunity, etc.)
full particulars; all the details; the whole story; everything (about); from beginning to end
perfectly; right on the mark; spot on; enough; sufficiently; thoroughly
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
interception (email); wiretap; bug
sneak photography; non-consensual photography; peeping photos; covert filming
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
to leave as is; to let alone; to disregard
hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse