hm; um; huh?; what?; nuh-uh; no
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
fellow; mutual; companion; comrade
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
genuine article; real thing; real deal
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
change; transformation; reform; revolution; revolutionizing; innovation
cutting edge; leading edge; forefront; tip; end
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
pioneer; leader; taking the initiative; leading an attack; charging ahead of others (towards the enemy)
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
to accomplish; to achieve; to complete; to carry out; to carry through
end; conclusion; last; final; once ...; the moment ... (, that's it)
contract; compact; agreement
lifespan; life; lifetime; life (of a battery, lightbulb, etc.); service life; end of an object's (useful) life
transcendence; transcendency
to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down
to watch over; to keep watch over; to keep an eye on; to watch intently; to stare; to gaze
(several) tens; dozens; scores (of)
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
mystery; mysteriousness; secret
people; men and women; each person; everybody
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
to continue to do; to persist in doing
for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; because of; as a result of
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
to be full of (e.g. adventure, youth, energy); to be overflowing with
tire track; traces of a person or thing; path one has taken; locus
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before