calm; serenity; tranquillity; tranquility
request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
mall; maul (in rugby); mole; Moor; molding
whirligig beetle (any insect of family Gyrinidae, esp. the Japanese whirligig beetle, Gyrinus japonicus); pond skater; water strider
to show mercy; to show sympathy; to have compassion; to be kind
self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency; smugness
to scale (mountain, flight of stairs, etc.)
extremely angry; furious; fiercely (shine); blazingly; merrily (burn away); red-hot
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
comical (story, song); comic; the comedy business (rakugo, manzai, etc.); something laughable
theatre; theater; playhouse
to shake; to waver; to tremble
rebar; (iron) reinforcing bar; reinforcing steel; reinforced concrete
to be unsteady; to reel; to shake; to waver; to be unsettled (feelings, thoughts, etc.)
to slope; to descend; to slide (snow, etc.)
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
exclusion; removal; rejection; elimination; abatement; lifting (sanctions, etc.)
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
to see through; to see the true nature of something
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
hard fighting; close contest
to enliven (e.g. a conversation); to animate; to engage in enthusiastically; to become successful and well known
shorthanded; short of hands; undermanned; insufficient (stock, money, etc.); in short supply; low
to blaze down on; to beat down on; to shine down upon
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
from the beginning; from the first; all along; of course
to look around; to take a view of
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
ambush; troops in ambush; unexpected opposition; unexpected obstacle
to face on; to look out on to
encompassing; covering (exhaustively); including (all of); comprising; comprehending
whole; all; general; gross; entire; overall