festival; feast; carnival; matsuri
right of control; supremacy; sovereignty
exquisite; superb; perfect; miraculous
close contest; close match; close game; close combat
trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
rivalry (between two equally strong sides); struggle for supremacy; competing (with); vying (with); contending (with); being an equal match (for)
people; men and women; each person; everybody
one's last moments; hour of death; death throes; agonies of death
to mix (with); to be mixed (together); to be mingled
as expected; as predicted
what with A and B; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; denotes uncertainty
to break; to smash; to defeat; to destroy; to eliminate
self first; striving to be first; scrambling for
that road (path, street, way, etc.); that line (of business); that profession; love affairs; romance
ruins; wreckage; wreck; broken remains; debris
to look up (at); to look upwards; to respect; to look up to
side (of something, or taking someone's side); part; (watch) case
what is to be done?; what should (I) do?; what (am I) to do?
trip by boat; sea trip; voyage; cruise
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape); extraction (of compressed data)
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
to be blown off; to blow off; to blow away; to vanish; to disappear; to be dispelled
chattering (teeth); (frozen, worried) stiff; rigid (personality, thinking, etc.); inflexible; voracious (e.g. work, study); without slack or pause
crackling (of fire, fireworks, etc.); sparking; sputtering; to fight; to argue
electricity; (electric) light
to wrench open; to break open; to pry open; to prise open; to force open
at a disadvantage; in an unfavourable position; having poor prospects; standing little chance
volley firing; fusillade; broadside
weight; body weight; importance; weight; emphasis
one or two; a couple; a few; first and second (place); the top two
to compete; to contend; to vie; to contest
match (contest); matching (with); going well (with)
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.); to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
hearsay; learning by hearsay
overfishing; overhunting; indiscriminate fishing; indiscriminate hunting
defect; demerit; weak point; disadvantage
fuel consumption; gas mileage