busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
a little over; a little more than; powerhouse; one of the biggest; upper (seismic intensity)
disadvantage; handicap; unfavorable position
to shake; to waver; to tremble
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
conviction; belief; confidence
alternate; alternating; mutual; reciprocal
bet; wager; stake; gamble
to throw away as useless; to scrap; to make null and void; to renege; to annul
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
fluttering; flapping; (arch.) flickering (light, flame, etc.); frill; piece of thin material
shallow cunning; shallow cleverness
to knock down; to beat (someone) up; to injure (someone) so badly they cannot recover (esp. emotionally); to overwhelm (with mental anguish, etc.)
sidelong glance; short grain (paper)
bad condition; not to work out (i.e. a deal); disagreement; break-off; disorder; slump
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
you bastard!; you son of a bitch!
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
way of talking; speaking style
interference; intervention; meddling
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
from the beginning; from scratch
in accordance with plans; just as planned
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
under one's arm; (in) the armpit
oneself; oneself; for oneself; personally
to wield; to brandish; to display (one's knowledge); to show off; to abuse (one's power); to manipulate someone
right arm; right-hand man; right hand; right-handed pitcher
left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)
(preliminary) skirmish; prelude; preliminary encounter; warm-up match (e.g. before a final)
glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination
to blow away; to blow off; to dispel; to drive away; to talk big
to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
last; final; end; conclusion; rust
to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
dealing with; coping with