speciality; specialty; subject of study; expert; area of expertise
elite; best; pick; cream of the crop
middle period; medium-term
grant; bestowal; giving something to someone of low social standing (by a person of very high social standing)
leader; reader; reading book; reader (i.e. someone who reads); microreader; dotted line (in printing)
coercion; extortion; compulsion; force
paying one's own expenses; going into business for oneself; working independently; person who earns their own living
to stab; to thrust (into); to plant (in the ground); to stick upright
several times (as large, over)
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
frequency (of occurrence)
to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms; to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin
tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster
since some time or another; since who-knows-when
to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another)
indiscrimination; without discrimination; indiscriminate
men and women of all ages
cold-blooded; unfeeling; heartless; heart of stone; inconsiderate
extermination; annihilation
day and night; around the clock; always; constantly
supreme; sublime; highest
to get drunk; to become intoxicated; to feel sick (e.g. in a vehicle); to become nauseated; to be elated; to be exalted
the place one comes from; one's birthplace; one's hometown
to lure out of; to decoy out of; to drive to (tears, sleep, etc.); to evoke (sympathy, etc.); (arch.) to abduct; (arch.) to entice out of
normalcy; normality; normal
crisp (like a pickle); crunchy; firm (musculature); stiff (shoulders, neck, etc.)
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out
even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
one eye; one of one's eyes
having wounds all over one's body; being wounded all over; receiving a drubbing; being subjected to a barrage of criticism