hand-to-hand fighting; grappling; scuffling
retort; sealed plastic pouch typically containing ready-made sauce or stew; boil-in-the-bag; retort; glass vessel used for distillation (now largely obs.)
author; writer; novelist; artist
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
immediacy (in philosophy); directness
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
to get drunk; to become intoxicated; to feel sick (e.g. in a vehicle); to become nauseated; to be elated; to be exalted
incident; affair; happening; event
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
fall; crash (e.g. aircraft)
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
this time; now; next time; another time; recently; lately
to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to swing
symmetry; balance; proportion; uniformity
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
engineer; technical expert; technician; craftsperson
scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters; writer
smelting furnace; blast furnace
to gaze at; to fix one's eyes upon
youthful; young; young-looking
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal