disaster film; disaster movie
hand puppet; glove puppet
B-movie; B-picture; B-film
ritual stamping in the ring; lineup; appearance together
light; illumination; glow; lamp; light
scriptures; canon; teaching guide
eternalness; forever unchanging; distant land over the sea; world of the dead
rustling of leaves; rustling of grass
tiger cub; one's treasure; precious savings
(preliminary) skirmish; prelude; preliminary encounter; warm-up match (e.g. before a final)
worst of the worst; despicable; extremely bad
cannibalism (in animals); feeding on each other; mutually harmful competition; internecine struggle; dog-eat-dog competition
raw materials; ingredients
fascination; bewitchment; entrancement; dazzlement
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
return (to); revolution; recurrence; regression
secrecy; confidentiality; one's circumstances (esp. fiscal); kitchen
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
same village; same town; same province
to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is
triple; treble; threefold; three-ply; triplicate
to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate
condition; state (of health); appearance
distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin
founder; originator; pioneer
pseudo; quasi; false; suspected (case, e.g. of disease)
to jar; to creak; to grate
heap; pile; stack; full measure
drying up; running dry; running out; being exhausted; being drained
to understand; to make out
to run about trying to escape
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; goal; intent; object