career; carrier (disease, signal, warship, etc.); carrier; telephone company; career government employee
aptitude; aptness; suitability
to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)
pivot; vital point; cornerstone; Japanese photinia
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
to twine around; to twist around; to coil around; to pester; to hassle
tracer bullet; star shell; flare bomb
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path
to be hot on a person's heels
to act as an intermediary; to step in; to come between; to intervene; to interject
to miss a chance; to miss an opportunity
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
area of the field one is supposed to (or able to) defend; (one's) field; (one's) scope; one's type; kind of person one is attracted to
to know; to understand; to be aware of; to consent; to agree
globular shape; spherical shape
not only ... (but also); not merely; as well as; furthermore; besides; moreover
to be remembered; to go down in history
decisive action; going through with; daring to do; carrying out
to overflow from something full
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
pyrotechnic signal; signal flare
rank (of troops); file; column; formation
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
space; interval; space character; whitespace
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
to hang (hold) back; to hold off; to refrain; to jot down a note
to rise; to swell; to be promoted
interception; monitoring; tapping
rise; swell; elevation; upsurge
lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk
chief; main; principal; major
this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that