difference; disparity; gap
ramble; saunter; walk; wander; stroll
indigestion; dyspepsia; incomprehensibility; inability to understand
to flatly refuse; to reject; to spurn
to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate
discontent; dissatisfaction; complaint; grievance
to come out all right; to take care of itself; to be OK
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
currently nowhere to be seen; unknown where it went; disappeared into thin air
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish (e.g. market)
whirlpool; maelstrom; vortex; spiral (shape, pattern)
hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious
to act as an intermediary; to step in; to come between; to intervene; to interject
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
to be to the point; to be pertinent
wine and women; sensual pleasures; dissipation
authenticity; credibility
to disclose; to divulge; to expose; to open (a grave); to dig out
lock; padlock; tablet; lozenge; pill
bar; bolt (e.g. on door); double-arm lock; (rope) cinching
to pry; to prize; to prise
to finish watching (e.g. a movie)
striking (at something) and missing; swing and a miss; vain attempt
square measure; size (e.g. of land); area; surface
running through (north-south); cutting across; travelling across; cutting vertically; sectioning longitudinally
fast (asleep); snoring or grumbling sound
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling
ferrule (of a cane, umbrella, etc.); butt end (of a lance, pike, etc.); hard tip (of a mushroom stem)
the south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)
location where a magical being resides; cursed place where disaster after disaster occurs
point in common; common feature
whole year; all year round; always; all the time; during an era; middle class (of a nursery school, etc.)