to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)
what percentage; what ratio; what rate; what proportion
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
to burn down (to the ground); to clear away by burning; to reduce to ashes; to burn off
(not) by any means; (not) for anything; wouldn't do for anything; had enough; flatly refusing
major general; rear admiral; air commodore
approval; license; licence; permission
integration; unification; unity; combination; consolidation; synthesis
immediate, direct response
advice; counsel; remonstrance; recommendation
head; brains; intellect; understanding
ability to get things done
deviation; departure; omission
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve
minimum; at the very least
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
to be in danger of; to be liable to
group; (free) radical; counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones, satellites)
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
basis; foundation; grounds; authority
sign; indication; omen; symptom
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
(for) self-defense; (for) self-protection
capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); defeating (an opponent); attacking (a problem) strategically
to manage; to settle; to dispose of; to deal with; to arrange
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
hesitation; indecision; vacillation
extermination (esp. pests); expulsion; destruction
to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience
route; path; channel (e.g. sales, distribution)
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
to do in place of or on behalf of (someone)