success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; ritual exchange of cups (to seal a bond or pledge)
to take one's leave; to excuse oneself; to resign (from); to step down; to decline; to turn down
achievement; feat; meritorious deed; distinguished service
very great; enormous; serious
to be sacrificed; to become a victim (of); to fall victim (to); to lose one's life
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
thoroughly; completely; severely; harshly; (arch.) scattered; (arch.) disconnected
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (at); to fling (at); to vent (e.g. one's anger); to express (one's feelings)
surely; certainly; without doubt
to be suspicious of; to be doubtful of; to be dubious of
knowing; being aware (of); (an) acquaintance
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
dragon (as depicted in Western myths)
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly; less and less
omen; portent; sign; presage; harbinger; premonition
several times; a few times
generally; on the whole; general; rough; outline; main points
to come out; to appear; to turn up; to go out for a while
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
(complete) destruction; annihilation; devastation
to roar; to thunder; to become well known; to become famous; to pound (of one's heart); to throb
existential threat; life-or-death crisis
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
delivering an order; dispatch of an order; messenger; orderly; runner
call; summons; convening; convocation
slowly; tardily; complaining; grumbling; unsettled (e.g. weather); loose
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
office (e.g. the Oval Office)
basics; fundamentals; basis; basically; fundamentally
else; in addition; besides
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
to not understand; to not (quite) know; to be unsure; to be unable to tell