Emphasizing a comparative.
In reality; implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality.
Signalling a correction of one's previous utterance; rather, that is.
To make flat and level.
Flat and level.
Equal in proportion, quantity, size, etc.
On equal monetary terms; neither owing nor being owed.
parallel; on a level; reaching the same limit.
On equal terms of a moral sort; quits.
Convenient for rounding other numbers to; for example, ending in a zero.
Without great variation.
Divisible by two.
An even number.
Progressively more.
Indicates that the statement is becoming progressively more true.
In a manner that progressively increases.
Increasingly more; a growing number of; a growing quantity of.