superiority; superior power; predominance; preponderance
acceleration; speeding up
keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (gazing, staring); intently
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
open seam; seam that has come apart; tear
victory or defeat; outcome (of a game, battle, etc.)
to decide; to determine; to resolve; to break and overflow (e.g. levee); to collapse; to give way
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at); to be intimidated; to feel daunted
in one go; in one gulp; in one breath; suddenly; all of a sudden; all at once
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
restoration (to the original state or location); reconstruction; restitution
fierce battle; hard-fought battle; hot contest; severe fight
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
hey; yo; hi; come on; hey
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow (handling, dealing with something); anyhow; one way or another
an issue being settled; a case being closed
what; how; what (a) ...!; how ...!; surprisingly; to my amazement
piece of meat; cut of meat
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
to adhere to; to stick to; to keep close to; to go along with; to get involved with; to be thick with
ferocious; brutal; atrocious; savage; barbarous
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
ominous; sinister; (arch.) annoying; (arch.) appearing to be true; (arch.) plausible
to finish; to get it over with; to settle; to pay back; to get along (without something); to make do with (without)
to kick into the air; to kick up; to kick from below
whole area; surrounding area; all around; everywhere; all over the place
hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour
to creep up to; to approach stealthily; to steal up; to draw near unnoticed
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness
tailspin; spin; drilling; boring
readiness to die; (in the) face of death
counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow
to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
with all one's strength; with might and main; as hard as one can
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
to snap; to break (under pressure)
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably