steam; vapour; vapor; steamboat; steam locomotive
pressure; pressure (e.g. political); arm-twisting
to rise; to swell; to intensify; to increase; to grow stronger; to get higher
one (esp. of two); the other; on the one hand; on the other hand; whereas; although
iron wall; impregnable fortress; impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
degree (angle, temperature, scale, etc.); counter for occurrences; strength (of glasses); glasses prescription; alcohol content (percentage); alcohol by volume; extent
explosion; detonation; blast; outburst (of emotion); explosion (e.g. of anger); eruption (e.g. of discontent)
to shout; to cry (out); to scream; to clamor (for or against); to advocate; to insist
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
anything and everything; just about everything
strange; unfamiliar; unknown; unfamiliarity; strangeness; stranger
woman; female; feminine gender
to say; to speak; to tell; to be called
to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by
destructive blast; blowing up; explosion
yielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing
by all means; at all costs
restarting; resuming operations (e.g. at a power plant)
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
always; constantly; at all times; habitually
to defend oneself; to protect oneself
explosive; blasting powder
dozens; scores of; decades
impact; shock; impulse; (psychological) shock
to withstand; to be able to endure
business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
shelter; refuge; protected place
to release; to let go; to free; to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
dustbin of history; ash heap of history; obscurity; long-forgotten memory
world; society; people; the public
surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid
2nd day of the month; two days
for now; for the time being; for the present; though not quite satisfactorily; after a fashion
to lower the curtain (at the end of a play); to come to an end; to finish
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness