serious; not joking; straight
respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
it is not (like that) either
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to collect; to gather; to arrange; to put in order; to make uniform; to make even
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
war; fighting; fierce competition
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
opponent; rival; adversary; menace; danger; threat
brutal; cruel; merciless; ruthless; cold-blooded
mean; contemptible; despicable; dirty; foul; cowardly
atrocious; fiendish; brutal; villainous
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible
to destroy; to overthrow; to wreck; to ruin
mission; errand; task; duty; obligation
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
commodity; article of commerce; goods; stock; merchandise
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
more than usual; especially; particularly
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
person who makes unreasonable complaints to a company; incessant complainer; chronic complainer
to grow senile; to be childish with age; to be mentally slow; to be befuddled; to play stupid; to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine)
(instruction) manual; operations manual; basic rules (pertaining to how a job should be carried out); (car with) manual transmission
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
not to mention ...; needless to say ...; not to speak of ...; (arch.) negligent; (arch.) neglectful; (arch.) careless
company; corporation; workplace
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to