capable person; talented person; human resources; personnel
order; sequence; procedure
to speak sharply (e.g. during a heated discussion or argument)
hating to lose; unyielding; unbending; competitive; sore loser; determined
to be loath to; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of
to master (a skill); proprietor; manager; leader; chief; master (of arts, science, etc.); master (recording)
someone (unspecified, but someone in particular); a certain person
indicates uncertainty or second hand nature of information quoted
strict prohibition; ban; interdiction
nature; natural constitution; innate disposition
pan; frying pan; panning (a camera)
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
old friend; familiar face
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
course; route; path; process; means
consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion
principal occupation; core business
to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)
job-related; in the course of one's work
breaking the front line; frontal breakthrough
dispute; argument; contention
outside of one's area of expertise
infant; baby; little child
is something that; is that which
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
at full speed; impetuously; precipitately; headlong
two people alike; two of a kind; kissing cousins; cut from the same cloth
restaurant (esp. Western-style)
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
inferiority (e.g. numerical); inferior position; disadvantage; unfavorable situation; unfavourable situation
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
quiet (place); still; silent; inconspicuously; modestly; quietly
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
heated (e.g. debate); passionate
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
chance (of success); odds