to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
eternal; unlimited; endless
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
time; hour; period; class
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
for example; for instance; e.g.
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
one day; all day (long); throughout the day; first day of the month
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
simply put; putting it simply; in short
while; during (the time when)
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
confirmation; verification; validation; review; check; affirmation
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to be consistent; to be coherent
acceleration; speeding up
immediately; instantly; with nary a pause; without a moment's delay
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back