front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
to have one's name entered (in a list)
flight; desertion; escape
negative; passive; half-hearted; unmotivated
positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive
tool; implement; means; furniture
ridding oneself; freeing oneself of; growing out of; overcoming; outgrowing
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
viewing and treating as one; regarding as the same; equating one thing with another; identification
uncertain; indefinite; vague; ambiguous; equivocal; dubious
inborn; innate; inherent; a priori
desire; want; will; wish; urge; craving
obstinacy; atman; the self; the ego
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
to grant (request, wish); to answer (prayer); to make come true (e.g. a dream); to realize; to fulfill
transactions; dealings; business
second generation; second; junior
group; party; team; squad; section
individual; private person; personal; natural person
making use of; application; practical use; operation (esp. of a boat); steering
extraordinary; exceptional; unprecedented; solecistic; non-standard; irregular
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
decline; ebb; failure; decay; decrease; loss
because of; owing to; due to
fall; decline; lowering; deterioration; degradation
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
(not) very; (not) so; (not) very much; (not) particularly; (not) especially
block (solid piece of material); chunk (e.g. of meat); concrete block; (interlocking) toy blocks; (printing) block; block (area of a city); blocking (e.g. the way)
separate building; outbuilding; outhouse
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
to pierce; to go through; to remove (partitions between rooms); to knock (e.g. two rooms) into one; to carry out (to completion)
to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)
to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)
casualties; the killed and wounded
rubble; debris; wreckage; trash; rubbish
hitting the target; striking home; proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
surgery (branch of medicine); department of surgery
to carry out (of somewhere); to transport; to take out
to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms; to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin