benefit (be or provide a benefit to)

useless, deadhead, good-for-nothing, a piece of shit / (politics) lame duck

very; extremely / exceedingly; tremendously

extraordinary, unusual

emergency

a student (usually of a university, sometimes of a high school)

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear

in my opinion; I think; I guess; upon thought; upon reflection; upon contemplation / conceivably; presumably

as one wishes, in a way that one wants