nesting place; nesting site; nesting grounds
mountain range; mountain belt
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
southeastern part; the southeast
aim; goal; prospect; outlook
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
taking something into consideration; making allowances; discounting
pleasant; delightful; enjoyable; joyful; cheerful; amusing
anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
to warm up to; to become enthusiastic about; to be elated
gap; break; pause; interval; cut; incision
successively; one after another; sequentially; one by one
stupid plan; inane way of doing something; (one's own) plan; project
to shave off; to scrape off
common soldier; private; rank and file; small fry; underling
to be perturbed; to be agitated
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
judgment; judgement; discernment
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
irritation; annoyance; frustration
to fall below (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to be less than; to be lower than; to fall just short of; to be just under
minuscule amount; extremely small quantity
usually; ordinarily; always; continuous; 24-hour (operation, care, etc.); constant
to sing energetically; to sing with abandon
incontinence; soiling oneself; wetting one's pants; discharge (e.g. of contaminants); effluence
research; study; investigation
one cause; one reason; one factor
commander; general; leader
stupid; foolish; idiotic; fool; idiot; blockhead
base (of operations); site; location; center; foothold; stronghold
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
isolation; being alone; being friendless
no matter what anyone says; regardless of what is said
(I) won't say anything no matter what; unwilling to tell even under threat
dimension; perspective; point of reference; level (of something)
to stay indoors; to be confined indoors
to break (into pieces); to smash; to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to simplify; to make easy to understand
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known