maintenance; preservation; improvement
minute; fine; delicate; accurate; precise; elaborate
dainty; delicate (e.g. fingers); fine; sensitive; delicate (feelings, sense, etc.); subtle
steering; piloting; flying; management; handling; control
demand; firm request; requisition; requirement; desire
one's nature; characteristic; inherent; natural
to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
to press down; to hold down; to pin down; to suppress (feelings, disorder, opposition, etc.); to repress
concentration; thickness; density; cardinality
standard value; reference value; nominal value
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)
skeleton; skeletal structure; build; framework
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve
one by one; one after another; successively
to be transparent; to be see-through; to be clear; to be clear (voice, sound)
crystalline material; crystalline substance
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
operation (of machine); operating; running; working
change; conversion; transformation; transformation
deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense; strong (possibility, etc.)
formation; molding; making up; repair (e.g. plastic surgery); replacement; -plasty
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point (in geometry)
how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how
compound; composite; doubles (tennis, badminton, etc.); place bet (in horse racing, etc.); show bet
row; line; company (of someone); group; sequence; counter for rows
to supplement; to make up for; to compensate for; to cover (a shortage, loss, etc.); to fill (e.g. a vacancy)
repeatedly; over and over again; several layers deep; layer upon layer; row upon row
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
response (felt in the hands); resistance; reaction; response; effect
to be solved; to be resolved; to loosen; to come untied; to be removed (of restrictions); to be lifted (e.g. a ban)
sudden; abrupt; rapid; sharp; drastic; radical
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
brittle; fragile; weak; tender-hearted; sentimental; easily moved
burden; load (e.g. CPU time, electricity, etc.)
rapid increase; proliferation; surge; explosion
sharp increase; sudden rise
to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely
stoppage; interruption; cessation; suspension
gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull