specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place
valuation; appraisal; evaluation; appreciation; recognition; acknowledgement
altitude; height; elevation; high-degree; high-grade; advanced
mental; spiritual; emotional
instability; insecurity; crankiness
probability; likelihood; chances
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
looking aside; (from the) eyes of an onlooker
wholehearted; earnest; determined; intent; single-minded; straightforward
(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
miserable; pitiful; tragic; painstaking
sticking; clinging; with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard; all over; thickly
to be sticky; to be stringy; to be glutinous
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
ruins; wreckage; wreck; broken remains; debris
dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion
explosive; blasting powder
otherwise; or else; if not
violent explosion; bursting
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
supper; night meal; late-night snack; "fourth meal"; midnight snack
incredible; unbelievable; terrific; impressive
disastrous scene; terrible spectacle
predicament; one's ground; one's position
to profit; to benefit from; to take advantage of; to make good use of
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
clumsy; awkward; tactless; awkward (e.g. socially); (arch.) mean; (arch.) cowardly
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first
moving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that