(fictional) character; character; personality; persona
bill; bill of sale; tab (for later payment); credit; contact move (in go); direct attack to an enemy stone; sound effect produced by striking with clappers a wooden board in kabuki
Central Intelligence Agency (US); CIA
KGB (former Soviet Union intelligence agency)
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
to lead; to take the lead; to be in a top position
to snarl (at each other); to growl (angrily); to quarrel; to fight; to argue
shaking; trembling; pitching; disturbance; unrest; agitation
publicly; openly; ostensibly; formally
altitude; height; elevation; high-degree; high-grade; advanced
war; battle; match; game; competition
university student; college student
selling out; being sold out
skip it; drop it; I've had enough (e.g. when offered something); that's enough
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
beyond that point; after that
this and that; one thing or another
to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
to have (someone) by the short hairs; to have something on (someone)
meddling; interfering; choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
retaliation; revenge; reprisal; retorsion; retortion
being beyond recovery; having no hope of recovery
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
real; realistic; serious; non-joking; realtime blog; real world (cf. online games or social networking services)
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
mutual assured destruction
passage in a discourse; one section; one scene
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
personification; anthropomorphization
skeletal frame; skeleton; framework; frame; outline
fleshing out (e.g. a plan); giving substance (to); modeling; modelling
vague; obscure; indistinct; hazy; ambiguous
one after another; in succession
to accept (e.g. an explanation); to be satisfied (with); to assent (to)
novelization; novelisation; turning a film script into a novel
single; solo; solitary; just one; only one