to obtain; to get; to procure; to win; to secure
success; achievement; succeeding (in life); (worldly) success; prosperity
abandonment; renouncement; renunciation; resignation; abdication; surrender
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
fully; luxuriantly; fluffy; plump; soft and full
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
to stop walking; to pause
occurring in succession; doing in succession; firing in rapid succession; volley of shots; volley (of questions, abuse, etc.); stream
meeting face-to-face; seeing in person; facing (each other); opposing (traffic, etc.); confronting
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary
slovenly (appearance, work, etc.); sloppy; untidy; weak; feeble; weak-willed
probably; (most) likely; in all likelihood; I suspect; I dare say; I'm afraid
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
stiff and slackless; tense without any looseness; cling tightly; pulled or stretched as far as possible; creaking of a door or oar
to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
to look up at; to raise one's eyes; to look up to; to admire; to respect
to rub; to scrub; to repeatedly reuse (a joke, a topic of conversation, etc.); to milk; to mash (a button); to spam (a move)
straight to the point; point-blank; frank; direct
rough; careless; slovenly; slipshod; rude; impolite
fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
to feign friendliness; to play the hypocrite
speech; expression; wording; language
given the situation; now that it has come to this; if it comes to this
honorific title; honorific term of address
absurd; foolish; stupid; silly; nonsense; ludicrous
to lift (with a crane, ropes, etc.); to raise; to hoist; to manipulate (a price) upward; to (artificially) raise; to push up
tip of nose; before one's eyes; under one's nose; tip (of something)
to thrust at someone (e.g. a weapon); to point (a gun, knife, etc.) at; to hold up threateningly to (someone's face); to present forcefully (demand, document, etc.); to confront someone with (evidence, facts, etc.); to force upon
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning
to be overawed; to be overwhelmed; to be overcome; to be intimidated; to be daunted
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly; less and less
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
to be embarrassed; to lose face