east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
challenging; defiant; provocative; aggressive
skilled; skillful; skilful; competent; capable; good
ladder; stairs; going to several places in succession (e.g. barhopping)
contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game
(not) always; (not) necessarily; (not) entirely; (not) all
able; capable; competent; able person; person of ability
not necessarily so; is not always true
activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role
to make a name for oneself; to achieve success
and; thereupon; because of that
once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat
repetitious; long-winded; heavy (taste); (overly) rich; gaudy (colour, design, etc.); loud
winner; victor; conqueror
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
inevitable; necessary; foregone; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to exchange glances; to correspond; to counterbalance
rate; ratio; proportion; percentage
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
means of survival; means of escape; way out of a difficulty
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
main purpose; primary objective
you could say; you might say; verging on the
brimming with health (vigor, vigour); full of vitality; full of health
to emphasize; to state emphatically; to speak loudly about; to raise one's voice; to lift one's voice
after the end (of something); post-
to meet; to meet up; to rendezvous; to join (of roads, rivers, etc.); to flow together
promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate
prosperity; bustle; activity; crowd; turnout
street at night; making a night journey
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
half the face; one side; half; the other side; the reverse; the contrary
distinctly (standing out); clearly; in sharp relief; boldly
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
he; she; that person; (arch.) you
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
to be filled with strength; to be filled with effort; to be enthusiastic about; to be tired (ironic)
dangerous; in danger; facing imminent danger; precarious (situation); perilous (state, balance, etc.); in doubt
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
good humour (humor); good mood