able; capable; competent; talented; efficient
science; learning; scholarship; arts and sciences; academic pursuits
level; standard; water level
fall; decline; lowering; deterioration; degradation
adherence (to custom, tradition)
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
creating a mystery; mystification
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
to get rid of; to erase; to dispel; to eradicate; to wipe away
magic; sorcery; incantation
to spur (on); to expedite; to encourage
will; desire; ambition; urge (e.g. creative urge)
to have a talk; to tell a story
trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
goes without saying; needless to say; obvious
just now; at this moment; at this point of time
hanging low (over); hovering around (price level); low hanging (e.g. clouds); sluggish (e.g. economy); slump; recession
wintry; very cold-looking (e.g. landscape); bleak (e.g. room, street); desolate; empty (of furnishings)
to lie down; to throw oneself down
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
to rule over; to govern; to command; to integrate; to consolidate; to unite
that is to say; so that means
to topple over; to be overturned; to capsize; to be overruled; to be reversed; to be discredited
lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
energy; vigour; vigor; liveliness; spirit; life
to each his own; people differ; different people (have different likes)
to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head
chaos; confusion; disorder; chaotic; confused; uncertain
to escape from; to get out
the rise of the curtain; opening (of play); beginning (e.g. of an era); opening (festival, event, etc.)
in the end; at the end of the day
very; extremely; extreme; excessive; splendid; impressive
to be wrapped up (e.g. in a blanket); to cover oneself
myself; oneself; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to one's inferior)
peace and tranquillity; halcyon times of peace; peaceful world
concentration; diligence; asceticism; zeal in one's quest for enlightenment; adherence to a vegetarian diet
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
to break off; to come to an end; to be interrupted; to be cut short; to pause
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)