efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success
attenuation; damping; decay
personal (employee); employed; retained
carefully made; carefully produced; quality product; product made with care
quarrel; argument; row; (verbal) dispute
rank; place (e.g. first place); decimal place; counter for ghosts
past days; bygone days; days of yore; while still alive; during one's lifetime
maintaining contact (with); keeping in contact (with); keeping in touch (with); introducing (unacquainted people); getting acquainted (with one another)
to become aroused (of emotions, nerves, etc.); to become excited; to become stirred up; to be proud; to be haughty; to be pompous
agglutination; adhesion; deadlock; stalemate; agglutination
close investigation; careful examination; scrutiny
associate; junior; assistant; second highest rank; second place
sense of justice; feeling of righteousness; moral sense
lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy
(home) tutor; private tutor; private teacher
grandfather; male senior-citizen
blow; hit (on the body); beating
to kill; to choke the life out of
to step aside; to move (out of the way); to make way; to resign; to retire; to quit
leader; central personage
to show contempt for; to look down upon; to have a low opinion of; to cause to fall; to make decline
academic year; school year; year in school; grade in school
to be reduced to tears; to end up crying (e.g. after humiliation)
to open one's eyes wide (in astonishment, wonder, etc.); to be wide-eyed; to be amazed
carelessly; inattentively
at the very beginning of one's speech; immediately upon opening one's mouth (to speak); before anything else; first of all
leading; guiding; commanding
selecting a suitable person; personnel selection
barking up the wrong tree; calling at the wrong house
faculty; professorate; group of professors
brethren; brothers; fellow countrymen; fellowman; compatriot
stage (of a theatre, concert hall, etc.); stage performance; stage production; setting (of a story); scene; sphere (of activity)
actor; actress; man of wits; clever person; cunning fellow
gesture; gesticulation; motion
same room; sharing a room; occupying the same room
to stand, walk, etc. shoulder-to-shoulder; to be on a par with
beginning and end; from beginning to end; result; outcome; dealing with something successfully
to roll around laughing; to fold up; to hold one's sides with laughter