grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over
to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up
detour; circumvention; turning movement
piece of meat; cut of meat
after a while; a little while later; shortly afterward
idol (i.e. carving or painting of a deity)
ditch; drain; groove; tread; gap (between people, countries, etc.); gulf
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)
bat (Chiroptera spp.); umbrella; opportunist; turncoat
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to hug; to have (a thought or feeling); to hold; to harbour (suspicion, doubt, etc.)
manufacturing; processing; treatment; machining
great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty
blasphemy; curse; profanity; sacrilege; desecration
light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
to drop like a rock (e.g. of reputation, power, influence); to go down the toilet
nerve; nerves; sensitivity
rubbing the wrong way (e.g. a cat); irritating
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
quick; speedy; prompt; rapid; swift
next; secondly; subsequently
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
to become better; to improve
helmet (of a warrior); headpiece
reaching; attaining; arrival
to blow out; to spout out