dramatic decrease; sharp drop; sudden fall
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
medical and pharmaceutical products; medicinal supplies; drugs; pharmaceuticals; medicine
to play a leading role; to play a central part
extermination; annihilation
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off
condition; assumption; intention; intent; premise (in logic)
everything; anything; nothing
flight; desertion; escape
unconfirmed; unidentified
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
to kill (with a weapon); to defeat an opponent; to get someone out; to arrest; to take prisoner
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
to barricade oneself in; to hold (a fort, etc.); to shut oneself up; to be besieged; to dig in
(truck) load-carrying tray; (bicycle) luggage carrier; roof rack
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
to be busy; to be tied up doing something
something heard for the first time; hearing something for the first time
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
regular customer; valued client
great laughter; burst of laughter
what?!; what did you say?!; why?; what for?; anyone; anything
extreme foolishness; grave stupidity; big fool; damn idiot; utter fool
horse laugh; guffaw; wild laughter
among these; between these; of these; in here; in this
(the) whole; as a whole; in general; at large
objection; dissent; protest
for a while; for some time; for a period
serious look (on one's face); straight face
column (of data); column (used in distillation, column chromatography, etc.)
zip fastener; zipper; zip; chuck (device for holding a workpiece in a lathe or a tool in a drill)
skilled; skillful; skilful; competent; capable; good
to be lacking in options; to be too few
to be too numerous; to be too much
human relations; personal relationships