save; checking; curbing; suppressing
devoted; self-sacrificing
good performance; good work; great success
to walk behind someone; to follow in someone's footsteps
branch road; forked road; branch; crossroads (of a course of events); turning point; parting of the ways
dead end; cul-de-sac; blind alley; end; end of the road; end point
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
Milky Way; luminous band corresponding to the plane of the galaxy
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky
Ministry of the Environment
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
mountain's surface; bare surface of a mountain
level ground; plain; flatland
unattractive; ugly; unstylish; uncool
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
Deneb (star in the constellation Cygnus); Alpha Cygni
Altair (star in the constellation Aquila); Alpha Aquilae
Vega (star in the constellation Lyra); Alpha Lyrae
bet; wager; stake; gamble
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
as much as possible; unbeatably; unsurpassably
irregular pulse; arrhythmia
to shake and untangle; to shake free from
to misfire; to come to naught; to end in failure; to fizzle out; to fall flat
to distract one's attention
arrow (symbol); (romantic) interest (for a certain person); direction (of one's attention, etc.)
paste; glue; clothing starch
to crack (person's voice); to squeak
to become one tile away from completion; to be at one's wits' end; to be about to blow one's fuse
to put one's hand on; to touch
shooting star; falling star; meteor; blaze (wide white stripe down the face of a horse)
to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)
stagnation; hindrance; delay
to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail
to become sodden; to swell up; to become lazy
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive