private car; private automobile
cooperation; collaboration; association; partnership; (acting in) unison
antecedents; ancestor; previous position; previous existence; predecessor organization; predecessor organisation
nongovernment organization (organisation); NGO
not a little; not a few; considerable
forcefulness of speech; influential voice
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
financial products; financial instruments
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
future prospects; promise
inspection; reading; perusal; browsing (the web)
compensation; amends; redeeming feature
making do; getting by (somehow); managing
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
impostor; imposter; pretender; liar
defeat; lost battle; defeated army
(preliminary) meeting; face-to-face introduction; costarring; appearing together; match-up; pairing
trajectory; line of fire; ballistic
applied question; problem testing ability to apply theoretical knowledge; exercises
gross domestic product; GDP
gross domestic product; GDP
to read (a book); to open (a book) to read; to unravel (e.g. a mystery); to discover (the truth)
point of view; viewpoint; standpoint; perspective; angle
without a moment's delay; at once; immediately; instantly; promptly; without hesitation
self-study; teaching oneself; studying by oneself (at school) while the teacher is absent
strict; formal; strait-laced; stuffy; prudish; serious
limited; restricted; constrained
acquaintance; relation; affinity; reason
(coat) hanger; hangar; hunger
trainer aircraft; training plane; trainer
granted that; even if; even though
the whole school; all the schools
message; informative matter
good-for-nothing; useless; worthless
to say something additional; to add (to what was said before)
funny; amusing; strange; odd; wrong; unsuitable