selecting a suitable person; personnel selection
justice; right; righteousness; correct meaning; correct explanation
decisive; resolute; determined; firm
discharge; evacuation; emission (e.g. of CO2); ejection; excretion
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
all eyes (of the public); (in) full view of the public; (with) everyone looking on; (focus of) public attention
firm; determined; resolute; conclusive
piling shame on top of shame
to add fuel to the fire; to make things worse; to stir things up
helper; assistant; help; assistance
dependability; credibility; coefficient of confidence
tsk; tut; shoot; chirp; tweet
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade
stairs; stairway; staircase
powerless; weak; lacking physical strength; incompetent; lacking ability; powerless
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
to lose sight of; to miss
passage; pathway; roadway; avenue; aisle
the opposite direction; the other way
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
to get into a panic; to be flustered; to panic; to get in a flap
until something reaches the very limit; until the very last minute; up to the breaking point
projection; protrusion; lump; bulge
restriction; restraint; limitation; limit
on the contrary; rather; instead; all the more
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
retro; nostalgic; old-fashioned
low-altitude flying; having consistently poor results (grades, sales, etc.); barely scraping by; being on the verge of failing
to be turned up; to be lifted up (e.g. by the wind)
(street) corner; turn (in the road); bend; turning point; watershed
to reduce (one's) speed; to slow down (driving, cycling, etc.)
to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew
to (relax and) stretch one's legs out; to go for a further walk
parallelism; running parallel (to, with); running concurrently; occurring at the same time; not reaching an agreement (e.g. of a debate)
something thrown in (with a purchase); something extra; (giving a) discount; price reduction; addition; embellishment (e.g. to a story)
sacrifice; victim (esp. someone killed); casualty; sacrifice (to a deity)
(connecting) passageway; accessway; walk-through; skyway; sky bridge
chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing
second-year student; second-year pupil; biennial; biennial plant
to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)
guy; fellow; chap; bastard; asshole; arsehole