competent; suitable; qualified
to get involved or entangled in; to get mixed up in; to have something to do with; to have dealings with
to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal
since when; from when; how long
culling; putting down; slaughtering; killing
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
to look on enviously while doing nothing; (lit.) to hold a finger in one's mouth
to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home); to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight; to let pass; to pass up (an opportunity etc.); to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.); to postpone
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
lip service; mere words; professions; lips; mouth; snout
to explain away (a mistake, failure, etc.); to make excuses for; to gloss over; to talk one's way out of
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
champion of justice; knight in shining armor; crime avenger; hero; super hero
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
(game pieces, soldiers, etc.) under one's control
summarization; summary; generalization; review (by labour or political movements of past activities, results, etc.)
capacity; volume; capacitance
anonymity; using an assumed name
bulletin board; display board; notice board; electronic bulletin board; BBS
foreign; abroad; overseas
university (college) professor
critic; reviewer; commentator
scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters; writer
having served one's purpose; being finished (with); business settled
resentment; grudge; pent-up anger; frustration; bitterness
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
to fill in (field, entry, etc.); to fill out (form); to post a message (e.g. on a bulletin-board); to store; to write (data); to flash
barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
thread (of execution); thread (on an Internet forum, mailing list, etc.); topic; conversation
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
two people alike; two of a kind; kissing cousins; cut from the same cloth
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
ultimate; final; last; eventual
harvest; crop; ingathering; fruits (of one's labors); gain; result