(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
betrayer; traitor; turncoat; informer
difficult to be (in a place); not feeling like staying
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
spy; agent provocateur; covert operative; maker; builder; constructor
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
-like; -looking; -looked; tending to ...
plan; scheme; stratagem; trick; trap; plot
to outwit; to outmanoeuvre; to steal a march on; to get the jump on; to anticipate; to forestall
childish; child-like; innocent; naive
to compete; to contend; to vie; to contest
to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is)
being stuck between a rock and a hard place; being in a dilemma; being torn between conflicting demands
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
to go mad; to lose one's mind; to get out of order; to go amiss; to go wrong (of a plan or expectation, etc.); to fall through
failure; collapse; breakdown; (arch.) tear (in clothing, etc.); (arch.) rip; (arch.) split
shortage of capital; lack of funds; cash flow problem
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
cold-blooded person; heartless; coldhearted person
pair; the two; both persons; both things
tacit approval; tacit permission; connivance; acquiescence; toleration; overlooking
empress (consort); queen (consort)
cunning; craft; guile; slyness
to explain away; to talk one's way out of; to excuse oneself; to evade
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
muzzling (someone); gagging; forcing (someone) to keep quiet (about something); silencing (someone); killing (someone) to prevent them from revealing something
blind spot (on the retina); blind spot; weak point; loophole
hiding place; hideout; refuge; retreat; hideaway
criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender
one house; the same house
minor offence; minor offense; misdemeanor; misdemeanour
judicial decision; judgement; judgment; sentence; decree
release; liberation; acquittal
(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
death by hanging; execution by hanging
trial; judgement; judgment
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic