engineer; technical expert; technician; craftsperson
practical; useful; utilitarian; pragmatic
valuable article; valuables
bustling; shuffling; squirming; creepy crawly
inexcusable; unpardonable; can't be allowed to pass (without comment)
to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention
reaction of a living body
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
registrant; subscriber; enrollee
untouched; unused; intact
to shake; to sway; to waver
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
counter for scraps, fragments, petals, etc.
still more; even more; much more; increased; greater
feeling of dread; awful feeling; sense of fear
shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word
taking refuge; finding shelter; evacuation; escape; seeking safe haven
one's self-possession; one's presence of mind
local; localized; partial; topical (application)
artificial; unnatural; human-caused (e.g. mistake, error, disaster); man-made
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
voice; speech; sound of a voice; sound (e.g. of a TV)
tightness (of money, financial conditions, etc.); pressure; stringency; being strained (of a situation); being tense; being pressing
state of emergency; emergency; crisis
such a stupid ...; what a crazy ...; no way!; what nonsense!; how can that be?
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
to be caught in; to be stuck in; to stop by; to drop in for a short visit; to get mixed up in (trouble); to get entangled in (a problem); to fall for (a trick)
different item; different lot
to do without being seen (by); to do behind (someone's) back; to do without the knowledge of (e.g. one's parents)
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
rather; sooner; preferably
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
to bite at; to snap at; to jump at (e.g. an offer); to snap at; to hold on to; to cling to
infiltration; sneaking in; going undercover
inside of a castle; area surrounded by castle walls
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
coping method; approach; how to deal with (problem, etc.)
to have a feeling (that); to have a sensation (that)
to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending
ominous; sinister; (arch.) annoying; (arch.) appearing to be true; (arch.) plausible