lofty; sublime; noble; the sublime (aesthetics)
exaggerated; overblown; pretentious
advance party; advance team; advance group; vanguard unit
to reply; to respond; to answer; to talk back; to retort
to take hold of; to possess; to haunt
completely black; black from top to bottom; black from head to toe
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
one-way mirror; two-way mirror
earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
penetrating eyes; insightfulness
to step back; to move back; to withdraw (from the presence of a superior); to leave; to resign; to retire
offensive (movement); aggression
to turn; to shift; to alter; to distract
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
to kick about; to kick around; to scatter (a crowd, the enemy, etc.); to rout
to knock (a person) off his feet; to hit (something) hard; to send (someone) flying
to blow off; to be blown off
splinters of glass; glass shards
to rain incessantly; to downpour
to come off; to slip down; to slip off
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)
plain; field; hidden (structural) member; wild; lacking a political post
suddenly; all of a sudden; quickly; emphatically; energetically
silent (as the grave); deadly silent; deathly quiet
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
one's eyes; (pair of) eyes
attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation