good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
one day; (on) a certain day
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
hegemony; leadership; initiative
to spin vigorously; to wave around (e.g. sword, bat)
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
to have a talk; to tell a story
all; everything; entirety; absolutely (not); (not) at all; (none) whatsoever
to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); seeker; Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
raising the curtain; opening (of an event); start; beginning
as stated; verbatim; literally
meddling; interfering; choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
with a burble; hollow (sounding); holey; full of holes or dents; viciously beating; hitting and kicking repeatedly
volley firing; fusillade; broadside
interference; intervention; meddling
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
screw; key (of a clock, watch, etc.); spring
to be forestalled; to fall behind; to be one step behind
to forestall; to beat to the punch; to anticipate; to play the first move (e.g. in go)
epidemic; plague; pestilence
future; (future) prospects; bringing (from abroad, another region, etc.); bringing about; giving rise to
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
police; police officer; police station; self-appointed enforcer (of a rule, standard, etc.); busybody
to lessen; to decrease; to diminish
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
to make sense; to be meaningful
wicked person; evil person; bad child; naughty child; bad thing; mischief
pardon; forgiveness; tolerance; leniency; mercy; going easy (on someone)
with a click (of a button or switch); with a snap; crisply; one (small protrusion, hole, etc.); single; shortly
like; as; so that; in order that; be sure to; I hope (that)
no matter what; whatever you say; in the end; after all
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible