downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction
to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of
tough; strong; stiff; tenacious
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
shameless; brazen and unscrupulous
vitality; (one's) life force
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
small number; few; minority
survival; survivor; relic
hostile nature; inimical character
perception; sensing; noticing
attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation
habit; behavior; behaviour; trait
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)
extermination; annihilation
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
denouement; ending; conclusion; (grand) finale
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
salty; calculating; stingy; scowling; grimacing; hoarse
eyes; expression of the eyes; area around the eyes; skin round one's eyes
to wipe; to mop up; to get rid of (an impression, feeling, blemish, etc.); to dispel (e.g. shame); to erase
and; thereupon; because of that
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
until now; so far; up to the present
to invest in; to sink money into; to put into; to lay out (funds); to inject; to impregnate
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
that's true; of course; obviously
not quite (right); not very good; somewhat (lacking)
in that manner; like that
to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself