fear; horror; risk; danger; awe; reverence
weak; feeble; delicate; frail; helpless
before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later
will; volition; intention; intent; determination
intellectual power; mental capacity; intellect; intelligence; brains
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny
to bud; to sprout; to arise; to begin to grow
straightforwardly; readily; without hesitation
climax; peak; zenith; apex
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to fill with (emotion, enthusiasm, power, etc.); to imbue with; to fill a space (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. of a voice)
diagonally upward; (going in a) completely unexpected direction (of a story, result, etc.)
drama; theatre; theater; play
actor; actress; man of wits; clever person; cunning fellow
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
to understand; to be convinced; to be satisfied
reliability; trustworthiness; dependability
to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about
having the same family name and given name (as someone else)
different person; another person; someone else; changed man
to stop talking; to be silent
quite unlike; not bearing the slightest resemblance
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
still; much more; (not) yet; still a long way to go; still a long way off; not there yet
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
timidly; nervously; hesitantly; trembling (with fear); fearfully; anxiously
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
point of view; viewpoint; angle; visual point (position of the eye in calculations of optical instruments)
depiction; description; portrayal
smooth; undisturbed; uninterrupted; harmonious
dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation (for the stage or screen); embellishment (of the facts); exaggeration; dramatization
unlimited; endless; boundless; infinite
to act timid; to show diffidence; to be hesitant; to appear embarrassed; to look ashamed
beginning; start; outset; at first; at the beginning; initially
destruction; disruption; (application) crash
quite capable of ...; not unlikely to ...; may well ...; might ...; could ...; would not hesitate to ...
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
attention; kind attention; courteous attention
implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely
to make war (on); to wage war (against); to compete (against); to struggle (against adversities, etc.); to fight
to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade
way out; means to escape; escape route