to wield; to brandish; to display (one's knowledge); to show off; to abuse (one's power); to manipulate someone
difficult to ...; hard to ...
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
fingertip; finger; toe tip; toe
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
cheerful; bright; clear; clean; honest
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
huge win; overwhelming victory
to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself
to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
the truth; fact; as it is; as you are; frank; bare plain
to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand); to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)
to be sore; to be inflamed; to be bleary; to be dissipated; to be dissolute; to indulge in
mess; spoiled; spoilt; (come to) nothing; ruin
echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
Chinese poem with five characters per line
Chinese poem with seven characters per line
European Community; EC; e-commerce; electronic commerce; emergency contraception; engineering constructor
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
quick; swift; nimble; quick (understanding, judgement, etc.); alert; prompt
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; pregnant (pause etc.)
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
to come to one's senses; to calm down
sound effect for slurping back up excess saliva (e.g. as stimulated by desire for food)
to wipe; to mop up; to get rid of (an impression, feeling, blemish, etc.); to dispel (e.g. shame); to erase
brake; drag; skid; restraint; curtailment; self-imposed limit
attribute; property; context; character class, type, fetish, etc.
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
poor; pitiful; piteous; pitiable
these days; nowadays; recently
reality; actuality; hard fact
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk