advance guard; vanguard; avant-garde; forward (player)
to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)
appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence
quantity of heat (e.g. in calories, BTU, etc.); heat value; calorific value; (degree of) enthusiasm; zeal; passion
to make sense; to be meaningful
originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible
stale; hackneyed; clichéd
certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly
looking at from the corner of one's eye; sidelong glance; disregarding; ignoring; faceless ghost with an eye in its rump
to be extremely cautious; to be as sure as sure can be; to make assurance doubly sure
end; extremity; limit; result; outcome; upshot
aspiration; hope; ambition; aspiration; drawing breath
designation; specification; assignment; appointment; pointing at
to swing; to sway; to shake; to waver; to feel shaken; to become unstable
in the ground; in the earth; underground; subterranean
to hide; to conceal oneself; to disappear (behind); to be hidden (by); to live in seclusion; to retire (from the world)
still more; even more; much more; increased; greater
to be in focus; to come into focus
transcendence; transcendency
to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (another's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate
to show mercy; to show sympathy; to have compassion; to be kind
to change (with the passage of time); to fade; to wane; to decline
to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour); to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
certainly; for sure; distinctly; clearly; firmly; tightly
nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail); claw; plectrum; pick; hook; clasp
to be attentive to small details; to be attentive to others (or others' concerns); to have one's mind turn groundlessly to something negative
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
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
impossible; unthinkable; unbelievable; ridiculous
curiously enough; oddly enough; strange to tell
to run along; to run beside; to follow (a policy, plan, etc.); to act in accordance with; to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy
just the other day; quite recently