legend; tradition; biography; life; method; way
long-established; old-established; traditional
shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety
to open one's heart; to throw off reserve; to be frank
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam
obstinacy; atman; the self; the ego
tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
year by year; annually; every year; from year to year
tolerance; broad-mindedness
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
performance (of a play, opera, etc.); staging; presentation
weight training; muscle training
Pan (Greek god); bang; boom; crack
with these words; while saying
number; number plate; license plate
rough; wild; violent; immoderate; extravagant; reckless
breath; breathing; tone; mood
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
slope; incline; hill; milestone; (age) mark
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination
loss; feeling of loss; Los Angeles
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
(giving) instruction; initiation
kneeling down on the ground; prostrate oneself
to apologize; to apologise
pardon; forgiveness; forbearance
completely exhausted; dog-tired; dreadfully weary; terribly frustrated; limp; weak
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
completely exhausted; dead tired; knackered
joint ownership; co-ownership; sharing (e.g. a viewpoint); sharing (files, devices on a network, posts on social media, etc.)
row; line; company (of someone); group; sequence; counter for rows
admission ticket; entrance ticket; platform ticket; ticket allowing a non-traveller access to a railway station platform