tenacious; persistent; stubborn; vindictive; spiteful; vengeful
individuality; personality; quirk; idiosyncrasy; character; individual characteristic
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
to run along; to run beside; to follow (a policy, plan, etc.); to act in accordance with; to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy
one's dominant hand; person of ability; skilled person; master-hand
attenuation; damping; decay
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
to peel off; to come off; to flake off; to fade; to discolor; to discolour
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
simple honesty; tactless frankness
very great; enormous; serious
to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out); to block the way; to stand in the way (e.g. of progress); to obstruct
love affair; love relationship
(more than) enough; too much; bitterly; extremely; keenly
way one walks; one's walk
to walk; to move forward; to make progress
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
news programme; news program
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
audience (with a person of high standing); diameter of a tree trunk at eye level
being unhuman; being removed from humanity; being unworldly
quite unlike; not bearing the slightest resemblance
flash (of light); glint; swift strike; quick decisive move
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
to turn over; to change (one's mind); to reverse (one's decision); to fly (a flag); to let (a skirt, cape, etc.) flap in the wind
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
to jump up; to leap up; to spring up
wonder; admiration; being struck with admiration
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable
to polish; to shine; to burnish; to refine (a skill, etc.); to improve; to hone
to compete with; to argue with; to quarrel
the sixth sense; intuition; hunch
contradiction; inconsistency
synthesis; combination; general; combined; synthesis; colligation
to be on a (completely) different level; to be on a different scale; to be in a different league; to be of a different order of magnitude; to stand no comparison
unidentifiable; unidentified
superficial; apparent; seeming; surface; cosmetic
appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence
prospects of victory; chances of success
difficult; tough; formidable; redoubtable; stubborn
fighting spirit; (will to) fight