painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
business; enterprise; venture; (social) project; undertaking; enterprise
good offices; kind offices; services; mediation; intercession; conciliation
party; banquet; reception; feast; dinner
circumstances; condition; arranging; managing; lending money; raising money
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
tradition; folklore; legend; (verbal) message; word (from someone)
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind
close to the wall; alongside the wall
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
street; road; traffic; coming and going; flow (of water, air, etc.); passage; transmission (of sound)
far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
smoking area; smoking corner
to smoke a cigarette; to smoke
green calabash; unripe gourd; pale and sickly person; pallid and thin person
results; record; grades; marks
(fighting) spirit; motivation; shout (for getting in the right mood to deal with something, etc.); cheer; kiai; short shout when performing an attacking move
being heard (by others); being overheard; being leaked (of plans, secrets, etc.); going in one ear and out the other
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
alone; by oneself; on one's own
subsidy; grant; subvention
graduate; alumnus; alumna
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
other than; except for; aside from; apart from; save for
wholly; solely; entirely; principally; mostly; chiefly
to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
to control; to take the lead in; to have under one's thumb
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising