telephone call; speaking over the telephone; (Internet) voice call; counter for telephone calls of a set duration
thundering; purring; something large and heavy starting to roll; scattered about; common; idleness; idling about
work; business; company; study
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
precipitous cliff; sheer precipice; critical situation
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
hoot hoot; tu-whit tu-whoo; oh!; I see; huh!
stronghold; inner citadel; base; headquarters
to lose hair; to become bald; to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
sense of the seasons; feeling of seasonality
to come out (e.g. hair); to fall out; to collapse (e.g. building, floor); to be left out; to be omitted
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
honest to a fault; foolishly honest; naively honest
be (that) as it may; having said that
isolation; separation; remoteness; seclusion; reclusion; inaccessibility
base (of a plant, tree, pillar, etc.); (part near the) root; roots (of one's hair); root (e.g. of a problem); source
to cut apart (cloth, paper, etc.); to sever (ties); to break off (relationship); to cut off (enemy's retreat); to block (road, etc.)
one's last moments; death throes; agony of death
to die; to lay down life's burden
(right at the) side; just beside
far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake
to be extremely cautious; to be as sure as sure can be; to make assurance doubly sure
other self; alter ego; part of oneself (in someone or something else); incarnations of Buddha
to look downwards; to lower one's eyes
to win fame; to be widely-known; to be well known; to make a name for oneself
son of a bitch; piece of shit
sacrificial pawn; sacrificed piece; sacrifice
to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of