numeral; figure; digit; numeric character
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.)
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
mailbox; letter box; letterbox; mail slot
stealthy footsteps; walking on tiptoe
fearfully; nervously; timidly; gingerly
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
to tag along; to follow; to tail; to leave tracks; to leave footprints
probability; likelihood; chances
military service; combat experience
appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
withdrawal; secession; separation; breakaway
victory; triumph; conquest; success; win
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
persistent; obstinate; tenacious; relentless; insistent; importunate
it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but
hiding place; hideout; refuge; retreat; hideaway
possession; retention; maintenance
home ground; home field; one's haunt; one's stamping ground; one's domain
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
to rest; to suspend; to give relief
number of times; frequency; count
hearer; listener; audience; interviewer; questioner
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
balance of power (in a relationship); power dynamic
to be completely absorbed in; to fall for (something)
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
to part from; to part company with; to split with; to break off relations with
that field; the authorities (esp. the police)
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
the same generation; coeval
to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around
snugly; cosily; carefree; easily; freshly made and still warm; imprudently
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
poor; pitiful; piteous; pitiable