cracking sound (e.g. cracking one's knuckles); crunching sound
reservation; putting on hold; deferment
beating someone up by ganging up on them; facing a barrage of criticism
agreement; coincidence; correspondence; conformity
with a bump; with a clunk; yelp (e.g. of a fox); bark; howl
peeking; peeping (e.g. through a hole, narrow gap)
choice; selection; diagnosis; medical opinion; judgement; opinion
impure; adulterated; foul; mixed; dishonest
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
to recognize by sound (recognise); to identify by sound; to understand; to be reasonable
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
favorite sword; cherished sword
on one hand; on the other hand
astounding; startling; world-shaking; amazing; earth-shattering
stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes
lofty; sublime; noble; the sublime (aesthetics)
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
(not) a soul; (not) a single person
way of solving (a problem); solution
lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
to be pleased; to gloat; to glow with self-satisfaction
unidentifiable; unidentified
vaporization; vaporisation; evaporation
common people; ordinary people; masses
to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)
gas; vapour; vapor; gaseous body
audience; spectator; spectators
to comb upwards; to brush up (a loose strand of hair); to turn up a lamp wick
unheard-of; unprecedented; unparalleled in history (unparallelled); record-breaking
living person; the living
efficacy; benefit; efficiency; effect; result; success
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
keeping an alternative up one's sleeve; two-stage preparation
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
range (of a rifle, missile, etc.)