meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
defense; defence; safeguard; protection
to put on armour (armor); to wear armour; to arm oneself; to wear; to cover
to reject; to repulse; to repel; to bounce back; to counterattack; to strike back
depths; deep place; bottom (of one's heart)
probe; inquiry; enquiry; investigation
inconsistency; discord; conflict; discrepancy; contradiction; failure
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
ruffian; villain; peculiar person; idiosyncratic person; tricky thing; something that is more than it seems
to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet; to recover; (of the market) to improve
to be treated to a meal; to be given a meal
impudent; shameless; brazen; forward; audacious; cheeky
intracerebral; inside the brain; (occurring) in the mind; mental (e.g. image); imaginary
person (generally male) who won't learn their lesson; persistent jerk
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
late at night; small hours of the morning
to lose one's footing; to slip
god of death; death deity; Death
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
to pull over one's eyes (e.g. hat); to wear pulled down over one's eyes
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
late autumn (fall); (arch.) ninth month of the lunar calendar
traffic network extending in all directions
stone wall; dry wall; rocky cliff; stone precipice
skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium
counter for buildings (esp. houses); suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
regular customer; regular patron; frequenter; constant companion
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
to hit; to run into; to light on; to strike into; to come against; to deadlock
panel; wainscoting; wainscotting; plight; fix; bind
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
monotony; monotone; dullness; monotone; monotonic
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; UNESCO
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature