obstruction; prevention; hindrance; check; blocking; stopping
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
battle; war; fight (against time, poverty, etc.); struggle (for freedom, survival, etc.); contest; competition
to unfold; to unroll; to open
total destruction; complete destruction; annihilation; total defeat; complete failure
to go out to meet; to receive; to call for; to summon; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
function; facility; faculty; feature
use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
occurrence; incidence; generation (of power, heat, etc.); production; ontogeny; development
to keep within limits (e.g. spending); to restrain (e.g. emotions); to control; to hold back (e.g. an enemy); to check; to curb
success; achievement; succeeding (in life); (worldly) success; prosperity
returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely
one person; another name; nickname; alias
than; rather than; instead of; from; out of; except
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
woman; female; feminine gender
to attack; to destroy; to defeat; to conquer; to avenge
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
queen; female monarch; queen consort; consort of a king; queen; princess
to end; to be finished; to die; to perish; to do utterly; to do completely
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
outside ...; beyond ...; not included in ...
heroic; fierce; grand; sublime; magnificent
to remove; to get rid of; to exclude; to except; to kill (a traitor, opponent, etc.)
companions; friends; comrades; mates; partners
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
that; the matter in question
nothing but; none other than
having said that; on the other hand; (but) then; (but) still
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
of course; certainly; naturally
general; universal; ordinary; average; (arch.) the same; (arch.) no different
not exceeding ...; not more than ...; below (a standard, level, etc.); under; the following; the below-mentioned
(school) grade; year; class; grade; kyu (junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
to claim lives; to cause deaths; to result in fatalities