painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
to avoid (physical contact with); to avoid (situation); to ward off; to avert; to put aside; to move out of the way
to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit
cover; concealment; masking; occultation
moat; fosse; trench; underground air-raid shelter; dugout
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
blocking (e.g. the way); obstructing; block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.); block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape); concrete block; blocking (from view, esp. of websites, on social media, etc.)
protection against wind; Saposhnikovia divaricata (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine); Glehnia littoralis (species of umbellifer used in Chinese medicine)
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
chief; main; principal; major
result; consequence; coming to fruition; bearing fruit; as a result; consequently
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
program (of events, music, etc.); programme; program (booklet); brochure; (computer) program; programming
coincident with; while; simultaneously
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
obstinate; stubborn; headstrong
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
to inform; to notify; to know; to reign
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
any and every thing; altogether; lock, stock, and barrel; the whole shooting match; the whole kit and caboodle; without reserve
preliminary investigation
possibly; apparently; (seem) likely; somehow or other; with difficulty; barely
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
pattern; figure; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
contradiction; inconsistency
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
curiosity; inquisitiveness
most of all; extremely; supremely
underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret
structure; construction; makeup; framework; organization; pattern