natural defences; natural defenses; steep place
attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
to have one's attention attracted (caught); to be preoccupied with
forgetting; lapse of memory
very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just
frame (e.g. of film, panel in a comic, etc.); scene; time block (e.g. of a class schedule)
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to
brilliant; glorious; glittering; bright; splendid (e.g. achievement, success); promising (e.g. future)
to leave as; to view as; to maintain the status quo
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind
heartbroken thoughts; heartrending grief; overwhelming sorrow
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
order (esp. to a number of people); command; ritual of bowing at start and end of school class
... all over again (repeating the same failure)
to tie; to fasten; to wear (necktie, belt); to put on; to total; to sum; to be strict with
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to scurry home; to run home; to fly back
to push in; to force into; to break in (e.g. into a house); to intrude
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
to invade; to attack; to breach; to penetrate
matter of time; question of time
fleeting (glimpse, glance, etc.)
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
current; urgent; to confront (an issue); to face (up to something); for the meantime; at present
to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)
support; backing; patronage
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
near oneself; close to one; familiar
easy to deal with; easily manageable; tractable; malleable
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
to look down (on); to condescend (to)
invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass
impossible to do (although wants to)
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
attitude; posture; preparedness; readiness