coming and going; traffic; road; street; association; socializing
impatient; tantalized; tantalised; irritated; chagrined; chagrinned
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
to work hard at; to devote oneself to; to be diligent in
lieutenant colonel; commander (navy)
to ask again; to repeat one's question; to ask back; to ask in return; to counter
consecutive; continuous; successive
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
very likely; very probable
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
home country; one's own country; suzerain country (from the perspective of the vassal state); colonizing country; country of one's ancestors; this country
to beg; to ask; to request; to invite
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
to wait and see; to sit on the fence; to be noncommittal
involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism; grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation
face; honour; honor; appearance; look
chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing
to miss (capturing); to fail to catch; to let slip
to go to the bottom of an affair; to inquire into the origin
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
restoring one's impaired reputation; regaining one's honor; redeeming oneself
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
blunder; fault; error; mistake; failure; disgrace
acting arbitrarily on one's own authority; acting arbitrarily without consultation
foreign country; other country; another province; strange land; alien land
sending a ship to the bottom; sinking (a ship); to sink a ship
cannot be helped; unavoidable
just cause; good reason; pretext; duty (to one's country, sovereign, etc.)
bridge (e.g. on a warship)
control value; minimal required value
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral