function; facility; faculty; feature
labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble
strict (e.g. security); heavy (e.g. guard); showy; pretentious; impressive; imposing
tumult; great noise; clatter; hustle and bustle
busily; sedulously; laboriously; feverishly; fussily; worrying (about little things)
laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
to talk to oneself; to mutter
amount of material resources
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
at the critical moment; when the time comes; when it's most important; when necessary; in an emergency; when push comes to shove
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
to get; to secure; to learn; to master; to complete
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic
three; three years of age
(not) in any way; in no way; at all; terribly; awfully; hopelessly
component; factor; item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
to be contrary; to run counter (to); to conflict (with); to disagree (with)
watchful waiting; careful supervision
to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins)
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
to be attached; to be connected with; to remain imprinted; to scar; to bear (fruit, interest, etc.); to be acquired (of a habit, ability, etc.); to increase (of strength, etc.)
to go mad; to lose one's mind; to get out of order; to go amiss; to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.); to fall through
(it) goes without saying; needn't be said; that should rather be left unsaid
intention; wish; purpose; mind (to do)
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
benefit; use; good; profit; gains
state of emergency; emergency; crisis
to have no chance (of succeeding)
chance to win; opportunity to win; chance of victory
rather; better; instead; if anything
to take advantage of one's carelessness; to perform a surprise attack
way (of doing); manner; method; means
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
blind spot (e.g. of a driver); dead angle; dead ground; dead space