foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; expectation; anticipation
playing to the gallery; grandstanding; ad hoc; haphazard; dress rehearsal
to trample; to crush underfoot
to crunch; to masticate; to simplify; to explain plainly
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae)
cooking program; cookery show
swallowing in one gulp; downing; sipping; sip; thinking nothing of one's opponent; making easy prey of someone
to get damaged; to get chipped; to be wounded; to get injured; to get hurt (reputation)
whole face; all over one's face
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
to make good use of one's spare moments; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
one eye; one of one's eyes; being blind in one eye; person who is blind in one eye
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
ecology; life and habits (of an animal); mode of life; way of living
use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation
to rise; to swell; to intensify; to increase; to grow stronger; to get higher
dark red; dark brown; reddish brown
to cut off; to excise; to tear off; to cut out; to whittle down; to tear out
to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily
to bite off; to gnaw through
to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself
pursuit (of a fleeing enemy); chase; follow-up attack
from the beginning; without hesitation; entirely; completely; head-on; head-first
to dance (orig. a hopping dance); to be manipulated; to dance to someone's tune
to use (as a tool) for one's own advantage; to use as a pretext; to use as an excuse
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
throat; singing voice; gutter (inner margins of a book)
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
body; physique; build; stature
fall; crash (of an aircraft)
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to
to suffer a disappointment; to feel let down; to have one's attack (question, etc.) sidestepped; to be given the slip
as (X, then Y); with; in accordance with; in proportion to
conspicuously; noticeably; remarkably; strikingly; outstandingly; especially
to avenge (someone) by striking down their killer
wounded person; injured person