meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
lattice; latticework; window bars; grid; grating
field of activities; area of activity; range of behavior (behaviour); habitat
no wonder; little wonder; after all; as expected; which isn't surprising
ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon
to rank next to; to come after
to launch a surprise attack
intensification; aggravation
to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)
to squash; to crush; to flatten
to save; to leave over; to spare
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
duplication; repetition; overlapping; redundancy; restoration
to not understand; to not (quite) know; to be unsure; to be unable to tell
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
first championship win (esp. sumo)
hating to lose; unyielding; unbending; competitive; sore loser; determined
withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction
concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability
certainly; surely; definitely
delusion; trick of the imagination
to draw a conclusion; to conclude; to settle on
flat out (of); completely empty; out of money; penniless; broke
brute force approach (esp. in a video game)
to (an extent); up to; doesn't amount to doing ...; not significant enough to require ...; even if ...
highest grade; superlative degree
remodeling; remodelling; restructuring; modding
as it is bound to (happen); following the natural course; though possible as it may be
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
to find out; to discover; to detect
roundabout; indirect; circuitous; ignorant (of the world)