title; index; heading; headline; caption
arrival (of post, news, correspondence, etc.); receiving (a phone call, email, etc.)
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
during; for the duration of
to precede; to forestall; to anticipate
to rush into; to surge into; to crowd into
favorite; favourite; habitually used
disliking a certain food without having tried it; disliking something without having tried it; being prejudiced against; having an instinctive aversion to
to hide; to keep to oneself
troublesome; difficult (e.g. customer, guest, child); laborious (e.g. task, dinner)
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
to get along; to hit it off; to be on the same page; to work well together; to synchronize
moral support; emotional support; spiritual support
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
real-life friend (as opposed to online friend)
live coals (for firelighting); cause (of disturbance, conflict, etc.); trigger
to use properly; to use (different things) for different purposes
without looking aside; looking neither right nor left; wholeheartedly; single-mindedly
to reply; to respond; to answer; to talk back; to retort
faint; indistinct; dim; (arch.) few; (arch.) a little
heated (e.g. debate); passionate
to draw (a line); to demarcate; to mark; to plan
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
to stop; to stay (e.g. the night); to contain; to keep (in position, in place); to record (e.g. a fact); to retain
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
worst of the worst; despicable; extremely bad
being too late; losing one's final chance
place to go; person to turn to; someone to depend on
elementary school; primary school; school for children over eight years old in ancient China; traditional Chinese philology
(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)