arbitration; intercession; mediation
arrogant; impudent; haughty; boastful
to have confidence in one's own abilities
(not) at all; completely; utterly; very; extremely
persistence; single-mindedness
eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo
to reach back into one's memory; to search one's mind; to recall
taking a picture or video of oneself (esp. with a smartphone camera); selfie; video selfie; self-taken picture
photograph of two people, usu. male and female; man and woman being alone together; phone dating service where a couple are randomly connected for a conversation
silence; stillness; quietness
rampancy; prevalence; domination
to distribute; to hand out
believable; credible; trustworthy
to pledge allegiance; to swear an oath of allegiance; to take an oath of allegiance
to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out); to block the way; to stand in the way (e.g. of progress); to obstruct
coercion; overpowering; to overpower; to overawe; to daunt
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
it doesn't matter what; anything is fine
to take the initiative; to forestall; to beat to the punch
oral instruction; passing information by word-of-mouth; oral tradition
to live through; to survive
sky; air; ether; firmament; the heavens
under the orders of; by order (command)
to frolic about; to mess around
flying bird; soaring bird
chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue
manual or physical labor; manual or physical labour
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
to drive away; to clear; to scatter; to disperse
fluttering; flapping; (arch.) flickering (light, flame, etc.); frill; piece of thin material
to fly away; to flee away; to scatter
carpentry; woodworking; woodwork
leather-soled sandals (geta)
several weeks; a few weeks