help; assistance; service
reinforcement; strengthening
shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
tough guy; wild one; veteran (in a particular field); expert; person of surprising audacity; someone with a lot of nerve
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
to instigate; to incite; to spur on; to set (e.g. a dog after someone)
nonstandard; out of spec; irregular; exceptional; extraordinary; unbelievable
one's own child; one's own children
now advancing and now retreating; ebb and flow; seesawing; taking alternately favorable and unfavorable turns
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
guard; protector; defensive armament; personal armor (armour)
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with (skillfully); handling (well); managing
audience (with a person of high standing); diameter of a tree trunk at eye level
beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end
having said that; on the other hand; (but) then; (but) still
to flash (e.g. lightning); to flicker; to flutter (e.g. flag); to wave; to flash into one's mind (e.g. an idea); to come to one suddenly
memory; sense; experience
ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon
evil spirit; demon; devil
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
unsociable; unfriendly; blunt; surly; curt; cold
(one's) inner voice; voice of one's heart; what one really thinks
election; selection; choice
spiritual aspect; mental aspect; emotional aspect
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to clear up; to become cloudless
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
aggressiveness; aggression
heaven and earth; the universe; land; world; top and bottom; gods of heaven and earth
full view; total picture; whole story; full particulars; all the details
broken into small fragments; smashed to atoms; fragments and splinters; smithereens
speech; address; curtain speech; prologue; way of speaking; manner of speech
(land) with a thump; slumping (of something heavy); (lying down) with a flop; effortlessly (throw onto); roundishly (shaped; of something large)
to overlook; to command a view of; to look down on; to despise; to look down on
beheading (as the ending to a seppuku); (arch.) assistance; (arch.) help