lantern bearer; flatterer; booster; brown-noser
dignity; majesty; sanctity
black; black (coffee); without cream or milk; exploitative (esp. of employees); overly harsh; boldface
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way
warm; mild; warm (of a colour); mellow; having enough money
back to back; discord; feud; opposite sides of the same coin
close adhesion; sticking firmly to; relating closely to; having relevance to; contact printing
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
to lower the curtain; to come to an end
sleep-talking; nonsense; gibberish
nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
directly; in person; firsthand
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
to resolve; to ready (oneself); to make up one's mind
appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)
trend; course of action; directionality; directivity; directional; vectorial
depending on the ...; to depend on the ...
to display one's real ability; to show one's real ability; to show one's stuff; to show oneself at one's best; to really shine; to come into one's own
to supplement; to make up for; to compensate for; to cover (a shortage, loss, etc.); to fill (e.g. a vacancy)
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
third stage; three stages
wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected; irrelevant; off the point
100,000,000,000; hundred billion; many
throne; crown; government position; court rank; social standing; rank; grade (of quality, etc.)
purpose; utility; objective; way to use something
to summon courage; to be brave
assertion; declaration; affirmation
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
frontier (esp. the American frontier); frontier (of a field); forefront (of science, technology)
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
predecessor; people of former times
travelling on foot; traveling on foot; travelling all over
solid body; three-dimensional object; multi-storey car park
observation; survey; measurement; opinion; prediction; thinking
surprise; something unexpected