to soar; to fly high; to be whirled up; to make merry; to be ecstatic; to be in high spirits
to cut apart (cloth, paper, etc.); to sever (ties); to break off (relationship); to cut off (enemy's retreat); to block (road, etc.)
eagle (Accipitridae family)
elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
to have a reason; to have an excuse
human relations; personal relationships
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
supreme; greatest; highest; best
pride; boast; credit (to)
pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
tottering; staggering; faltering; reeling
skeleton; skeletal structure; build; framework
based on; built on; made from
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
long-established; old-established; traditional
government; administration
organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)
in name only; figurehead; (only) by name
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
bureaucrat; government official; bureaucracy
as usual; as always; as ever; as before; still
government office; public office
unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking
document; official papers
orders; instructions; directive; command
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; confusion
appointment; nomination; ordination; commission; designation
(starting) from nothing; from scratch
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
order; system; structure; set-up; organization; organisation
extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; annihilation
military officer; naval officer
use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement