staunch; hardcore; dyed-in-the-wool; metal reinforcement
otherwise; or else; if not
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner
to pity; to feel sympathy for; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to commiserate with; to have mercy on
layer; stratum; class; stratum; sheaf; counter for stories (of a building)
capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); defeating (an opponent); attacking (a problem) strategically
decoy (for hunting); stool; lure; decoy; stool pigeon
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
to pull into; to draw in; to bring in; to win over
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
tool; implement; means; furniture
absolutely; unconditionally; never (with neg. verb)
equality; equal; same rights; same rank; equivalence
priority; order of precedence
100,000; hundred thousand
argument; discussion; dispute; controversy
human rights; civil liberties
unit; denomination; credit (in school); in units of (e.g. "in thousands"); in amounts of
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
proposition; thesis; notion; problem; issue; challenge
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
to desire; to wish for; to expect; to see; to command (a view of)
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
to bring back; to restore
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
to overdo; to do too much
magnetism; magnetic force
to turn (one's face) away; to avert (one's eyes)
if it is the case that ...
to do over again; to redo; to start over; to remake; to resume; to recommence