retribution; retributive justice; karma; just deserts; poetic justice; reward and punishment for one's past behavior
to taste; to savor; to appreciate; to enjoy; to experience; to go through
waking up; awakening; arousal; disillusion; disillusionment; awakening
vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry
to roar; to thunder; to become well known; to become famous; to pound (of one's heart); to throb
perception; sensing; noticing
assistance; support; subsidy; supplement; spotting (in weight training)
to check; to stop; to keep back
to grant; to give; to confer; to teach; to instruct; to impart (knowledge)
many; much; plenty; hardly
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
ferocious; brutal; atrocious; savage; barbarous
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
fort; stronghold; fortification
to go down in history; to be recorded in the history books
still better; even better
great person; hero; mastermind; extraordinary person
even; even if ...; even though ...; because ...; as ...; with the purpose of ...
putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation
to stake; to risk; to bet; to wager
superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
paper-thin (difference); razor-thin; very slight
imbalance; disproportion; disparity; mismatch; asymmetry
ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
alone; by oneself; unaccompanied; unaided; single-handed; without one's family
to extend; to stretch out; to attend; to participate in; to enrol; to enroll
different (quality, nature); heterogeneous
distinction; discrimination
war situation; progress of a battle
(on) horseback; riding a horse
to graze (e.g. bullet); to scratch; to touch lightly; to take a percentage; to exploit; to squeeze
to shorten one's life (through hardship, etc.); to hasten one's death
stone wall; dry wall; rocky cliff; stone precipice
root; source; origin; foundation; basis; essence
to turn against; to become an enemy
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
(one's) family; dependents; household; follower; retainer; underling
to hold one's breath; to catch one's breath
unskilled; not very good at
dying from blood loss; bleeding to death; hemorrhaging to death