principle; theory; fundamental truth
ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
to eat untidily; to eat messily; to eat a bit of everything; to leave things half-eaten; to dabble in (something); to try one's hand at (various things)
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
crunching; chewing or crushing something hard; hard and crunchy; very skinny; emaciated
to become completely chilled
avalanche of earth and rocks; debris flow; mudslide; landslide
to rush into; to surge into; to crowd into
postponement; deferment; hesitation; delaying; suspended sentence
hitting a ball (with a bat, golf club, etc.); batting; stroke
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
several minutes; a few minutes
plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution
prey (i.e. of a predator); kill; victim (of a crime, a hoax, etc.)
blind alley; cul-de-sac; dead end street; deadlock; impasse; dead end
forgetting; lapse of memory
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
ultimate; final; last; eventual
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
complete stranger; total stranger
breaking down; defeating; abolishing
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
to leave a trail; to leave traces; to have a lasting effect
to stagnate; to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to become sluggish; to become dull; to be delayed
account of a dream; fantastic story; wild tale; empty dream
guess; speculation; supposition
region; limits; stage; level
to soak (into); to permeate; to sting (of a wound, sensitive area, etc.); to smart; to be infected (e.g. with vice); to be steeped (e.g. with prejudice)
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
clean sweep; purging; doing away with; eradication
surface of the earth; ground surface
complete change; about-face
use; exercise (of one's right, authority, power, etc.)
expressing one's feelings; communicating one's intention; declaration of intent
what one desires; what one hopes for; suits me well; could ask for nothing better; bring it on
to cut one's way through; to fight one's way through (the enemy); to get over; to come through; to overcome (a difficulty)
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
danger to oneself; (fear of) one's physical safety
to sow; to plant; to sow (the seeds of; e.g. conflict); to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware)
substitution; replacement; permutation; substitution; displacement