naming; nominating; designating; calling on; asking for; requesting
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
taking advantage of (an opportunity); jumping on the bandwagon; taking passage (in); getting a lift; getting a ride
two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
being together; going together; matching (clothing); going together
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
consultation; discussion; discussing; asking (somebody) for advice
to have the privilege of doing
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
to gather; to collect; to assemble
opposition; rebellion; rebounding; recoiling; rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery
deplorable; regrettable; disappointing; vexing; unfortunate
to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself
to beat to death; to kill
mission; errand; task; duty; obligation
to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled
of no interest; not interested
formation; establishment; conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
(fighting) spirit; motivation; shout (for getting in the right mood to deal with something, etc.); cheer; kiai; short shout when performing an attacking move
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
future (usually near); prospects
besides; in addition; also; moreover
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
people; citizens; subjects; folk
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
duty; obligation; responsibility
thank you for your continued patronage
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
to throw; to fling; to hurl; to neglect; to abandon; to leave alone
meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence
palanquin set with jewels; money and social status gained by marrying a rich and powerful man
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
even; even if; even though; because of; on the grounds that
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives