handwriting; handwritten; hand-drawn; hand-painted
to dash off (a piece of writing); to scribble; to scrawl
one's dominant hand; person of ability; skilled person; master-hand
myself; oneself; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to one's inferior)
to take the form (of); to assume a shape
to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out
to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
crucial; key; most important; main (point)
one's own work; making by oneself; farming on one's own land; independent farmer
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk; to get plastered
solution; solution strategy
first volume (in a two or three-volume set); first book; volume one; book one
calm and collected; with composure; having enough and to spare
collection of books; (personal) library
without gaps; closely packed; always; usually; often; frequently
to be overproduced; to be incredibly good (e.g. for a child); to go much better than expected; to be too good to be true (of a story, etc.)
to speak with restraint; to understate; to downplay; to put it mildly; to say the least
having slow reflexes; being nonathletic; person who is not athletic
scratch; graze; scrape; abrasion
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
elevation; rise; improvement; advancement; progress
to raise; to lift; to boost; to enhance
successive; consecutive; back-to-back; one after another
to shoulder; to carry on one's shoulder; to nominate for a position; to choose as a representative; to take (someone) for a ride; to deceive
oblong; vertical writing style (e.g. on envelopes); portrait orientation
shooting down (an aircraft)
good; goodness; right; virtue
unable to fight (esp. in video games); unconscious; knocked out; dead
performance; trick; feat; extraordinary deed; daring act; bold move
number (of long, cylindrical things, movies, trains, home runs, etc.)
saving (e.g. time, money, resources); economising; economizing
hitting ratio; hit rate; success rate; accuracy rate
percent; per cent; percentage
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
to sense; to infer; to gather; to pick up on; to get wind of; to perceive