Japanese chestnut (Castanea crenata)
short pants; shorts; breeches; knickerbockers
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
to be full; to wax (e.g. moon); to rise (e.g. tide); to mature; to expire
consideration; taking into account
(outward) appearance; (proper) format (e.g. of an essay); form; appearances; decency; lip-service
to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize
ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery
to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)
very small amount of money; penny; cent; nickel; dime
various foods cooked together; hodgepodge; hotchpotch; mulligan stew
crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
splendour; splendor; magnificence; grandeur
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
in that manner; like that
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
wolf (Canis lupus); wolf in sheep's clothing; womanizer
sharp (blade); pointed; sharp (pain); stabbing; perceptive; keen
saucepan; pot; stew; hot pot
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
to grapple with; to wrestle with; to engage in a bout; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to come to grips with; to work hard on
previous conviction; criminal record; previous offense; previous offence
able; capable; competent; talented; efficient
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)
to sleep in peace; to sleep without fear
spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
confections; sweets; candy; cake
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
to continue to do; to persist in doing
man who is uninterested in aggressively pursuing women; peaceable men who don't approach women as potential partners; (lit.) herbivore
boy; son; baby boy; young man
passionate; hot-blooded; full of vitality
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly