pleased to make your acquaintance
killing a would-be avenger; having the tables turned on someone (e.g. by a challenger); being beaten at one's own game
to become exaggerated (of rumours, etc.); to become embellished
ownership; dominion; ownership rights; proprietorship; property rights
fellow women; between women; among women; woman-to-woman
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
human relations; personal relationships
masterpiece; masterwork; chef d'oeuvre; (unintentionally) hilarious; absurd (e.g. blunder); outrageous
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusing; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; acceptable; passable; satisfactory
lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
isolation; being alone; being friendless
multiracial nation; multiethnic country
stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)
noisily; clamorously; incessantly (complaining, pestering, etc.); going on and on; loudly (crying); wailing
to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)
timidly; nervously; hesitantly; trembling (with fear); fearfully; anxiously
to reseat oneself; to correct one's posture
rough (behaviour, temperament, etc.); wild; rude; violent
(juvenile) delinquent; Yankee; Yank; American
engineer; technical officer
to jar; to creak; to grate
walking heavily; lumbering
firmly; solidly; sturdily; strongly; toughly
to look through; to hold up to the light; to make an opening; to leave space; to fart without making a sound
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
I don't give a damn; that's got nothing to do with me
to throw a punch at; to swing at; to strike out at; to raise a hand against
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
bad; poor; inferior; delinquent; hoodlum; hooligan
to assume an air of ...; to act ...; to affect ...; to put on airs; to be self-important
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
one-on-one fighting sport (without weapons); combat sport; martial art
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting