laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker
high street; town centre (center)
railroad network; railroad system
crumbling; collapse; ruin; has-been; wannabe
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
terrain; geographical features; topography
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
calamity; disaster; misfortune
in comparison to; rather than
advantage; point in favor; point in favour
preference; priority; precedence
to burrow through; to dig through
on the occasion of; circumstances; juncture
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)
prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum
to be helpful; to be useful
reinforcement; strengthening
construction; establishment
conference room; council room
to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize
hovercraft; air-cushion vehicle; ground-effect machine
to allow; to enable; to make possible; to make feasible; to permit
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around
firing (esp. a rocket or missile); launching; shooting; ejaculation
almost; roughly; approximately
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo
rock; boulder; crag; cliff; anchor
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
rugged; scraggy; angular; gnarled
here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)
opponent; rival; adversary; menace; danger; threat