famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
circumference; outskirts; environs; (computer) peripheral
to suck up; to pump up; to siphon off (profits, etc.); to exploit; to take up others' opinions, hopes, etc.
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
drama; play; powerful drug
starvation; famine; hunger
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
sensible; clever; smart; decent; tasteful
honest to a fault; foolishly honest; naively honest
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
interpretation; explanation; reading; construction
to grant (a request); to accept; to hear (a prayer); to comply with (a demand)
downward spiral; negative spiral; vicious circle
account of a dream; fantastic story; wild tale; empty dream
personification; impersonation; embodiment
several hundred; hundreds (of)
superman; superwoman; Ubermensch (Nietzsche's ideal man of the future); overman
kind; sort; species; species
isolation; separation; remoteness; seclusion; reclusion; inaccessibility
conquest; subjugation; overcoming (a difficulty); conquering (e.g. a mountain); mastery (of a skill)
untrodden (region, field of study, etc.); unprecedented (discovery, achievement, etc.)
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
good; goodness; right; virtue
wicked person; evil person; bad child; naughty child; bad thing; mischief
to be remembered; to go down in history
best; extra-fine; exceptionally; extraordinarily; jumping and slashing (e.g. at an enemy)
what kind of thing; anything (else); nothing (but)
small mercy (from some misfortune); silver lining of a dark cloud; consolation in sadness; blessing in disguise
textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
to remove; to get rid of; to exclude; to except; to kill (a traitor, opponent, etc.)
at that time; in those days
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
easily (reach, exceed, etc.); comfortably; amply; fully; well over
hundredfold; hundred times as much; much more (than previously)
ugly; unsightly; hideous; mean; repulsive; disgraceful