ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
dictatorship; despotism; autocracy; running (a company, etc.) despotically
... or something (like that); ... or whatever; so-called ...; a certain ...
to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
to abbreviate; to abridge; to omit; to leave out; to take; to capture
bottom; buttocks; bidet function (for anal cleansing)
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
with a bang bang (e.g. repeated sound of a hammer or gunfire); at a mad pace; with great vigor
to warm (up); to heat (up); to sit on (an idea, plan, etc.); to keep to oneself; to renew (an old friendship); to take for oneself
finally; in the end; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
to swell (out); to expand; to be inflated; to get cross; to get sulky; to pout
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
outspoken; arguing (heatedly) what one believes in; insisting on something without restraint
argument; discussion; dispute; controversy
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
each; (arch.) you (plural)
vector; direction (e.g. of one's activities or interests); focus
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
mudslinging contest; mudslinging match
regrettable; unsatisfactory; deplorable; lamentable
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
musical composition; melody writing; song writing
to change (with the passage of time); to fade; to wane; to decline
usual; ordinary; normal; regular; general; common
difficult voyage; stormy passage; hard flight; rough going; running into trouble; proceeding with difficulty
liking; taste; fancy; wish; desire; choice
stock; inventory; stocking up (e.g. on food); (soup) stock; stock; share; stock (point-in-time economic quantity)
adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
to come out all right; to take care of itself; to go crazy; to become romantically or sexually involved (with someone)
words; writing; ci (form of Chinese poetry); independent word
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
poetry anthology; collection of poems; collected poems
quotation; citation; reference
to assemble; to put together; to set up; to form (words, sentences, etc.)
gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); snatching; stealing
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
one's own work; making by oneself; farming on one's own land; independent farmer
behavior; behaviour; conduct; entertainment; treat; feast