capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel
to lose; to miss (a chance, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
ninth; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
ten; 10; ten years of age
captain; commander; commanding officer; leader
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
party; group; crew; company (of troops); corps; unit
captain (Army, US Marine Corps, USAF); lieutenant (Navy); flight lieutenant (RAF, RAAF, RNZAF, etc.)
survival; survivor; relic
first lieutenant; lieutenant junior grade
person in charge; senior staff; manager; chief; head
participation; joining; entry
lieutenant colonel; commander (navy)
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
to bring (news, knowledge, etc.); to introduce; to bring about; to cause; to produce (e.g. results)
preface; introduction; preamble
to gather; to collect; to assemble
management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
ceremonious; unduly distant (e.g. towards a friend); overly formal; reserved
way of calling (something or someone)
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
interruption (e.g. of a conversation)
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
reaction; response; physical reaction (to a stimulus); observable response (of an organism); reaction; effect
courteous; decorous; polite
to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)
the other day; some time ago; recently
occurrence; incidence; generation (of power, heat, etc.); production; ontogeny; development
act of terror; terrorist attack
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
scale; scope; plan; structure
expansion; extension; magnification; enlargement; escalation; spread
to be in danger of; to be liable to; to be at risk of
to state; to express; to say; to tell; to mention