veteran; battle-worn; schooled by adversity in many battles; hard-bitten; rich in experience; very experienced
one more time; once more; once again
to settle peacefully; to work out peacefully; to come to an amicable solution; to become reconciled
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
volley (of fire); salvo; fusillade; simultaneous firing (of guns or artillery)
to fall to one's knees; to go down on one's knees (e.g. to express respect)
to lose heart; to lose interest; to become stale (i.e. of a carbonated beverage); to go flat; to lose focus; to let one's guard down
to act as one; to act in concert; to keep pace; to stay in step
doubt; suspicion; question; strangeness
firing; shooting; fire; gunshot; marksmanship
taking refuge; evacuation; backup (of data)
to walk; to move forward; to make progress
to narrow; to reduce; to contract
to be dented; to be indented; to be beaten; to be overwhelmed; to be disheartened; to feel down
cover; mantle; shroud; hood; casing
to defend oneself; to protect oneself
trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected
brilliance; polish; lustre; luster; glossy finish
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
compression; condensing; shortening; compression (of data)
wave; billow; ups and downs; (something) advancing step by step; (something) surging forward inopposably; tendency
to change (buses, boats, etc.); to transfer (to); to possess (of a god, spirit, etc.)
to be in the firing line; to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning)
to freeze (from fear); to be unable to (too frightened to) run
all right; very well; okay; I got it
rising (smoke, clouds, etc.); rolling up; billowing up
to jump over; to leap over; to fly over; to fly across; to jump ahead (of someone); to skip over
acceleration; speeding up
set (of things); combo; setting up; preparing; setting (hair); set (in tennis, volleyball, etc.); set (in a play, film, etc.)
flaring up; bursting into flames
normal temperature; room temperature; constant temperature; fixed temperature
vaporization; vaporisation; evaporation