showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
plan; project; schedule; scheme; program; programme
(a) step ahead; (a) jump ahead
to let go by; to let pass; to overlook; to miss
two times; twice; two degrees
alteration; falsification; faking
genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
to set out; to set sail; to embark on (a new venture); to set out (to achieve something); to begin to ride; to lean forward
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
university or college offering four-year programs; the big four ...; the four major ...
gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull
element; chemical element; (classical) element (e.g. earth, water, air, fire); (arch.) origin; (arch.) source
spatial awareness; spatial perception
physical law; laws of physics
grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over
practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)
severe; strict; tough; hard
cesspool; sink; manure sink
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like
to rule over; to govern; to command; to integrate; to consolidate; to unite
to succeed (in doing); to pull something off; to manage (to do a job)
to be lifted up; to be hung up; to twitch upwards; to turn upward; to slant upward
resembling closely; being strikingly similar; bearing a strong likeness
circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
cinnabar; vermillion; red pigment (and ink made from same); red text (as used to correct documents)
hostility; antagonism; opposition
influence; power; might; strength; potency; force
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
to search for; to seek for; to look for
to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
seeing through (e.g. someone's lies); reading (e.g. thoughts); penetrating; detecting
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
to collapse into; to flop onto