dangerous; critical; grave; uncertain; unreliable; dodgy
to gain in skill; to improve; to get better
(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
in a daze; absent-mindedly; dimly; hazily; with a roar (of flames); with a whoosh
to come to one's senses; to calm down
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
to get tired of; to tire of; to lose interest in; to become sated; to become satiated; to have one's fill
resignation; acceptance; consolation
knack; skill; bone; skeleton; cremated remains (esp. the bones); ashes
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
performance (as opposed to practice); going before an audience or on-air; game; match; high of the season; height (of summer, etc.)
hidden room; secret chamber
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
mouse; rat; dark gray; slate gray
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
degree of difficulty; difficulty level
device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement
to steal; to rob; to deceive; to trick; to graze (in passing); to skim; to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.)
interruption (e.g. of a conversation)
dragon (as depicted in Western myths)
to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge
(carved) statue; sculpture
to be able to reduce the price; to be able to be reduced
to slide; to glide; to slip; to skid; to be slippery; to fail (an examination); to lose (a position)
to fall over; to fall down; to fall; to flop (e.g. of a play); to be a flop
to destroy; to break (by striking); to smash; to ruin (a plan, atmosphere, etc.); to spoil; to wreck
to lock up; to shut up; to imprison
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
dissolution; dissolving; solution (e.g. chemical); melting; liquefying; fusion
to compare; to make a comparison (between); to compete (on); to measure (one's strength, ability, etc. against another's)