good story; heartwarming story; good prospect (e.g. marriage, business)
to empty; to vacate; to evacuate
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
duty; obligation; responsibility
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
chance; start; opportunity; cause; reason; excuse
ignoring; disregarding; taking no notice of; refusing to comment on; turning a deaf ear to
logical; cogent; well-reasoned; logically consistent
sound argument; fair argument; just reasoning
suppression (e.g. of free speech); force-out
so; like this; in this way; this much; to this extent
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
(theatrical) fighting scene
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
whole; entirety; to begin with; in the first place; ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?")
dissatisfaction; discontent; displeasure; complaint; unhappiness
to insert; to include; to incorporate; to install; to embed
to not take seriously; to take lightly
to do whatever it takes; to use every trick in the book; to use any means; to stop at nothing
novel; story; (work of) fiction
with one's own body; by one's own action; by one's own experience; barely (e.g. escape); narrowly
unsteadily (e.g. on one's feet); shakily; wavering (in one's mind); unsteadily; aimlessly; unconsciously
trickery; wiles; finesse; Machiavellism
premeditated murder; deliberate murder; willful murder; wilful murder
to stick (into); to pierce; to enter at full speed; to hit (e.g. the catcher's mitt) at speed
one end; an end; part; fragment
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
gold (metal); gold (color); gold (medal); first place (prize); something of great value; something golden (e.g. silence); money
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to cozy up (to); to butter up
sprout; shoot; bud; germinal disk (in an egg)
to mow; to reap; to harvest; to eradicate; to root out (e.g. evil); to remove
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly; less and less
justification; rationalization
to gain fame; to make one's name
to repair; to mend; to change; to alter; to put back; to put away; to cure