good bargain; (a) find; godsend; (a) steal
pushing forward (undaunted); pushing on (toward a goal); striving (for)
largest class; top category
dangerous; critical; grave; uncertain; unreliable; dodgy
link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic
intuition; instinct; hunch
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to surround; to encircle; to enclose; to fawn over (someone); to play up to; to curry favor with
a long, long time ago; very long ago
clever; smart; sharp (ear, etc.); sensitive; discerning
scrap (metal); clipping (from a newspaper, magazine, etc.); cutting; scrapbook
as good as dead; might as well be dead; more dead than alive
to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
to run down (stairs, etc.)
propulsive power; driving force
tenacious; tough; enduring; dogged; headstrong; stubborn
to gain experience; to accumulate experiences
massing (of troops); gathering
something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts
to ring (a bell); to strike (a gong, drum, etc.); to beat; to sound
to tumble down; to roll down
to stop walking; to pause
to bite into (e.g. rope into skin); to cut into; to eat into; to encroach; to be wedged (i.e. underwear pulled from the back, driving it between the buttocks)
reason; circumstances; grounds; because of; due to; as a result of
almost; very nearly; only just; barely; just in time
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
forktail bullhead (species of catfish, Pelteobagrus nudiceps)
to pop off; to pop out; to fly off; to shoot off; to burst open
one more; another; the other; not quite; not very good
losing oneself (in); being absorbed (in); forgetting oneself