new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
method of manipulating; management method; puppeteering
to creak; to squeak; to grate; to grind; to rasp
Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus)
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
splendid; fine; handsome; elegant; imposing; prominent
to be touching; to be moving
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
remains; corpse; (dead) body
halfway-done; mediocre; uncertain; half-heartedly; insufficiently
readiness to die; (in the) face of death
bogging down; dragging on; turning into a quagmire; becoming mired in a mess
with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow); with a dip; with a bob; with a flutter
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
to eat up and spoil (e.g. crops); to eat away; to eat a bit of everything; to encroach upon; to take over
appropriate; suitable; fitting; apt; proper; right
meandering; snaking; zigzagging
customer traffic; customers; custom
this (very thing); this precisely
to establish; to formulate
to send an army; to send soldiers; to dispatch troops
for the present; for the time being; at present; in the meantime
seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting
succession; continuation; series; sequence
using as an intermediary; through
order; discipline; regularity; system; method
that is to say; so that means
to change (with the passage of time); to fade; to wane; to decline
letter left behind by someone who has departed; farewell letter
retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking
thirst; craving; thirst (for love, knowledge, etc.); hunger
genuine article; real thing; real deal
to help out of (trouble); to extricate
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive
white (bleached) bone; skeleton