(fictional) character;  character;  personality;  persona
 bill;  bill of sale;  tab (for later payment);  credit;  contact move (in go);  direct attack to an enemy stone;  sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki
 Central Intelligence Agency (US);  CIA
 KGB (former Soviet Union intelligence agency)
 story;  tale;  narrative;  account;  fable;  legend
 to compete;  to contest;  to quarrel;  to argue;  to deny (e.g. evidence)
 to lead;  to take the lead;  to be in a top position
 to snarl (at each other);  to growl (angrily);  to quarrel;  to fight;  to argue
 shaking;  trembling;  pitching;  disturbance;  unrest;  agitation
 publicly;  openly;  ostensibly;  formally
 altitude;  height;  elevation;  high-degree;  high-grade;  advanced
 war;  battle;  match;  game;  competition
 university student;  college student
 selling out;  being sold out
 skip it;  drop it;  I've had enough (e.g. when offered something);  that's enough
 concentration;  focusing;  convergence;  within a collection of works
 what is called;  as it is called;  the so-called;  so to speak
 beyond that point;  after that
 this and that;  one thing or another
 to drive away;  to order off;  to chase away;  to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
 terrible;  dreadful;  amazing (e.g. of strength);  great (e.g. of skills);  to a great extent;  vast (in numbers)
 to have (someone) by the short hairs;  to have something on (someone)
 meddling;  interfering;  choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one
 to destroy;  to overthrow;  to wreck;  to ruin
 retaliation;  revenge;  reprisal;  retorsion;  retortion
 being beyond recovery;  having no hope of recovery
 collapse;  crumbling;  breaking down;  (radioactive) decay;  disintegration
 real;  realistic;  serious;  non-joking;  realtime blog;  real world (cf. online games or social networking services)
 destruction;  disruption;  (application) crash
 mutual assured destruction
 passage in a discourse;  one section;  one scene
 and so on;  and so forth;  et cetera;  comment;  criticism
 personification;  anthropomorphization
 skeletal frame;  skeleton;  framework;  frame;  outline
 fleshing out (e.g. a plan);  giving substance (to);  modeling;  modelling
 vague;  obscure;  indistinct;  hazy;  ambiguous
 one after another;  in succession
 to accept (e.g. an explanation);  to be satisfied (with);  to assent (to)
 novelization;  novelisation;  turning a film script into a novel
 single;  solo;  solitary;  just one;  only one