important post; important office; key position
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
article specially made to order; made-to-measure (custom-made) article
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
open; spacious; extensive
high sensitivity; highly sensitive (e.g. film, radio receiver); high speed (film); discerning; discriminating; of refined tastes
fortress; stronghold; citadel
fort; stronghold; fortification
from what I've heard; according to reports; from what they say
reward; honorarium; remuneration
to intensify; to be excited; to fly into a rage; to dash against; to encourage
being beyond recovery; having no hope of recovery
teacher; instructor; professor
to gather; to crowd round; to sponge (off someone); to scrounge; to extort; to take (money) through intimidation
gaining nothing by; getting nowhere by
falsehood; untruth; lie; fallacy (logic)
to give a warning; to remind (a person) of
negative; passive; half-hearted; unmotivated
ferocious; fierce; truculent; savage
self-defense; self-defence
clanging; banging; throbbing (headache); pounding; fully; vigorously
pure; genuine; trueborn; natural-born
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed
rise; swell; elevation; upsurge
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
receptionist; reception woman
speciality; specialty; subject of study; expert; area of expertise
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
pole; climax; extreme; extremity
to be closed; to be blocked; to be clogged; to be plugged up; to be occupied; to be taken (e.g. accommodation)
source (of a transmission, broadcast, etc.); point of origin