perfect score; full marks; perfect; entirely satisfactory; excellent
living thing; organism; creature; biology
planet; dark horse; surprise contender
to form; to shape; to make; to mold; to mould; to build up
nasal breathing; breathing through one's nose; person's pleasure; excitement
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
foreigner; stranger; gentile; goy
grasp (of the situation, meaning, etc.); understanding; control; hold; grip
with a bang bang (e.g. repeated sound of a hammer or gunfire); at a mad pace; with great vigor
to hit (e.g. with a car); to knock down; to reject; to eliminate; to refuse (e.g. a request); to deny; to flip
to wet; to moisten; to dampen; to soak; to dip
exceptional; praiseworthy; laudable
even if not; even without
detached; aloof; indifferent
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
to sing; to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem; to express in the form of a poem; to recite (a poem)
handshake; reconciliation; joining hands; cooperation
to snarl (at each other); to growl (angrily); to quarrel; to fight; to argue
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
original method; original procedure; genuine way (of doing something)
unprecedented; never seen before
frequency (of occurrence)
versus; against; to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180); toward ...; to ...; equal footing
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
trigger (of a gun, etc.); trigger (for something); immediate cause
if it is (the case that ...)
subtle; delicate; difficult; complex; doubtful; questionable
council (consultatory, advisory); board of trustees
rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power
one's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
to state one's opinion; to offer one's opinion; to opine
all one's wisdom; (lit.) bag (full) of wisdom; the brains (of a group); the smart one; fount of wisdom
anti-; antithesis; fanqie; traditional Chinese spelling system in which two characters are used: the first one for the onset, the second one for rhyme and tone
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt