dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
movie version (based on TV series, anime, etc.); the movie
to come alive; to get going; to start to move
surging waves; raging billows; turbulent; tempestuous; tumultuous
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed
sanity; consciousness; soberness
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
pity; sympathy; compassion; affection; love
extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more
besides; in addition; also; moreover
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
to order; to command; to appoint
to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
bringing certain death; deadly; knockout (blow)
if that's the case ...; if so ...; that being the case ...
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
weapon; arms; ordnance; weapon (something used to gain an advantage); asset
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many
resentment; grudge; malice; matter for regret; regret
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something