motive power; driving force
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck
pushing forward (undaunted, bravely); working vigorously towards an aim; struggling on; striving towards
largest class; top category
dangerous; critical; grave; uncertain; unreliable; dodgy
link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to surround; to encircle; to enclose
clever; smart; sharp (ear, etc.); sensitive; discerning
as good as dead; might as well be dead; more dead than alive
to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
to run down (stairs, etc.)
propulsive power; driving force
tenacious; tough; enduring; dogged; headstrong; stubborn
to gain experience; to accumulate experiences
massing (of troops); gathering
something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts
to tumble down; to roll down
to stop walking; to pause
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
reason; cause; circumstances
almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
forktail bullhead (species of catfish, Pelteobagrus nudiceps)