- medicine; medicament; drug; chemical compound
- center; central point; focus
- to suss out; to figure out; to ascertain
- soldiers at the city walls (idiom); fig. at a critical juncture
- lit. not one drop can trickle through (idiom); fig. (of crowds, traffic etc) impenetrable
- to fall behind; to drop out
- amputation (medicine); to amputate
- (loanword) ruble (Russian currency)
- compensation payment (for injury); relief payment
- proposal; motion
- St Paul; São Paulo, city in Brazil
- to go to the bottom of a matter; after all; when all is said and done; (in an interrogative sentence) finally; outcome; result
- (idiom) with great fanfare; on a grand scale
- product; result (of)
- bitter; painful; deeply distressed
- more than half; greater part; most; probably; most likely
- success or failure
- to join up; to dock; a joint (between components)
- predestination; karma
- serious illness
- to put poison in sth; to poison
- physical body
- (coll.) to end in failure; to come to grief; to bite the dust
- to remain in existence; to retain
- new (army) recruit
- to stay behind to take care of things
- to detour; to bypass; to circumvent; to avoid; to wind around (of a road etc)
- hole; opening; cut; gap; gash; my husband or wife; classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc); precedent
- to fight lustily
- to rely on help from sb
- to fight over; to scramble for
- absent-minded; distracted; dazzled; vaguely; dimly
- to aim at; to target; to point at; to be directed at; registration; alignment (mechanical engineering)
- to improve one's family's social status by moving up in the world; to switch one's allegiance to a new patron
- to open access; to establish contact; to remove a block; to put through (a phone connection)