unable to understand (reason, motive, etc.)
meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up
abundant (grain) crop; good harvest
resemblance; similarity; analogy
gathering clouds; group of clouds
ripple (on water); wavelets
to break onto (shore); to wash ashore; to attack
assumption; supposition; hypothesis
constellation; astrological sign; star sign; zodiac sign
waxing and waning (of the Moon)
several hundred million years
massive failure; debacle; fiasco
alien (from another planet)
science fiction; sci-fi; SF
to be out of resources; to run out of stock
to be fed up (with); to be tired (of); to be stumped; to be nonplussed; to wince; to shrink back
prickling; stinging; tingling
every time; whenever; as; whether; in (either case)
unvoiced opinion; (opinion of the) silent majority; views which are not expressed
to speak; to say; to vocalize
lightning strike; thunderbolt; bolt of lightning; to strike (lightning); to be struck by lightning
to have legs; to be able to get around; to be a good runner
wearing a sword; sword one is wearing
dim-witted; slow to catch on
to boil; to seethe; to roil (e.g. waterfall, torrent); to foam; to well up (of emotions); to overflow (e.g. fighting spirit)
to add (to what was said before); to say in addition
to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage
Gulliver; preeminent example of its kind
(distant) howling; backbiting
to drift; to blow together; to have the wind start to blow; to have the wind spring up
dwarf; midget; elf; Issun-bōshi (Japanese fairytale)
helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging