meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
grand; heroic; sublime; fierce
someone who gets in the way without serving any useful purpose; fly in the ointment; buttinsky; third wheel
strategy meeting; council of war
haughty; arrogant; supercilious
to crush to death; to stifle to death; to squeeze to death; to stifle (a laugh, etc.); to muffle (one's breathing); to subdue (one's voice)
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
fib; exaggeration (of the truth); snow job
point in common; common feature
these guys; these fellows
money-making; commercialized; commercialised
mark (for quick identification or recognition); sign; landmark; guide; (arch.) trademark
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
organization; organisation; structure; construction; system (e.g. railroad, transport, party, etc.); tissue; texture (of a rock)
direct connection; direct link
sting operation; undercover investigation
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
to discuss; to talk together
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
while; even though; despite
water-based; aqueous; water-soluble
to push (something) against
to paint over; to paint out; to fill in; to cover completely (with paint)
surprise; astonishment; wonder; amazement
oblique line; forward slash
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
blank space (in documents); vacuum; blank; void
rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive
form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
to look through; to hold up to the light; to make an opening; to leave space; to fart without making a sound
it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...
human experiment; human experimentation; experiment on a living person