clear; obvious; evident; bright; light
decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
heat haze; shimmer of hot air
to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable
scale; scope; plan; structure
small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
scattering; diffusion; spread (e.g. signal across the spectrum)
prey; catch; kill; spoils; trophy; loot
clean sweep; purging; doing away with; eradication
long-handled Chinese spear; lance; weapon; arms; grip of a bow; parade float decorated with long-handled Chinese spears
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
to slaughter; to massacre; to butcher; to defeat soundly; to overpower; to vanquish
disabling; invalidation; nullification; vitiation
to do someone in; to bump someone off
to strike; to hit; to beat; to punch
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
suicidal act; self-destroying action; suicidal action
key; lock; key (to a problem); clue
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
answer respectively agreement or disagreement
proximity; nearness; being nearby; approaching; drawing near; coming close
to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
to aim at (with a weapon, etc.); to be after (something or someone); to have an eye on; to aim for; to set up as a goal
to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)
to blow away; to blow off; to dispel; to drive away; to talk big
real thing; original; actual
trembling with fear; filled with trepidation
invincible; unrivaled; unrivalled; matchless; unbeatable; undefeatable
offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; set-off; setoff
time (three times, each time, etc.); times