proximity; nearness; soon; nearby
knight wizard; mage knight
rudeness; impoliteness; discourtesy; insolence
Anatidae (duck family of birds)
reverse thrust; retrofiring; sudden mental derangement
Ladies and Gentlemen!; all of you; everyone
pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)
chimera (mythological); chimaera
laughable; ridiculous; pitiful; contemptible; absurdity
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
realm of the dead; the other world; underworld; hell
destined; predestined; fated; fateful
therefore; thus; well, then ...; that's right; indeed; (arch.) ... on earth?
snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.)
to knock down; to beat (someone) up; to injure (someone) so badly they cannot recover (esp. emotionally); to overwhelm (with mental anguish, etc.)
at first; at the outset; to begin with; as a first step
uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient
to change sides; to double-cross; to betray; to roll over (in bed); to turn over
burr (e.g. chestnut); bur; cupule; case
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
prohibition; interdiction; forbidden; prohibited
to accept somebody's challenge; to take up the gauntlet
to swipe; to nick; to pilfer; to steal
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
to get (a joke or explanation); to strike home; to click; to know intuitively
uneasiness; vague apprehension; premonition
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it
to shut in; to confine; to contain