to writhe (in pain); to squirm; to wriggle
amount of material resources
to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at); to be intimidated; to feel daunted
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily
still more; to say nothing of; not to mention; still less
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
to crumble down; to tumble down; to fall in
unthinkable; unexpected; outrageous; offensive
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside; aside
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness
emergence (of insects); eclosion; growing wings
to break; to be smashed; to split; to crack; to be divided (opinion, vote, etc.); to split (e.g. of a party); to come to light
upper half of the body; upper body
face; looks; countenance; vestige; trace; reminder
to die out; to become extinct
surroundings; environs; circumference
excited condition; excited state
to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other
immediately; right away; at once; instantly
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively; extreme
for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
generally; in the main; (more or less) everything; all parts; ordinary; usual
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
to take off (clothes, shoes, etc.); to undress
calculation; computation; reckoning; consideration; calculation; estimation
to fix; to settle; to standardize; constant; definite; uniform
to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
decisive battle; deciding match; play-off
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
same kind; same sort; same species; same race; homogeneity
annihilation; extermination; (total) destruction; wiping out