emergency measures; urgent countermeasures
to discuss; to find fault with; to criticize; to criticise
concealment; suppression; hiding
junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student
to be prominent; to be conspicuous
knowing how to swim with the tide; being good at dealing with things
everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular
observation; survey; measurement; opinion; prediction; thinking
all you want; as much as one wants
source of electricity; electrical power; power (button on TV, etc.)
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
having a poor endgame; missing at the last turn
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
artificiality; pretence; contrived act; commission (of a crime); feasance
blunder; (careless) mistake; error
reading too much into (what ... says)
humanity; sidewalk; footpath; human realm
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
(short) curtain hung at shop entrance; split curtain used to divide spaces in a house; reputation (of a store); good name; goodwill
to go under; to pass under; to dive (into or under the water); to evade; to get around; to survive
to go past; to pass; to pass by
unsatisfying; disappointing; abrupt; not enough; too quick; too short
passing through without stopping; passing by
to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down; to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip
to reject; to repulse; to repel; to bounce back; to counterattack; to strike back
receiving an electric shock
to project; to protrude; to pop out (e.g. eyes); to jump out; to rush out
for a short while; for a while; for some time; for the time being
cancellation (of a flight or sea voyage)
blizzard; furious snowstorm
to take over; to hand over
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
to freeze to death; to die of cold
journey; course; itinerary; stroke (of a piston); throw (of a switch)