leadership; initiative; spearhead
to fall ill; to suffer from (e.g. a disease); to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)
prosperity; thriving; flourishing
indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating
to undergo great hardships; to waste away from great effort and worry
parent; parents; dealer (in cards, mahjong, etc.); banker; founder; inventor; (pet) owner
helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging
selfishness; egotism; egoism; egocentricity
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
to get entangled in; to be involved in; to be embroiled in; to get mixed up in
the other world; the next world; the world beyond; world after death
to apologize; to apologise
glamorous; charming; beguiling; bewitching; beautiful; fascinatingly elegant
to backfire; to have a harmful result
ignorance; innocence; stupidity
begging for one's life; pleading for one's life
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge
funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd
grumbling; muttering; nonsense
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to wedge oneself into; to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below
information; making a report (to a superior)
speck; dot; point; only a little; particle; only one
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
loss and gain; advantage and disadvantage
possibly; by some possibility; perhaps
profit-and-loss arithmetic; calculating profit and loss; mercenary point of view
to be foolish; to be stupid; to be ridiculous
normalcy; normality; normal
judgment; judgement; discernment
to give; to offer; to lift up; to hold up; to raise
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
paranormality; anomalous phenomenon
hellfire; flames of hell; raging fire; large fire; fire that consumes an evildoer
to burn completely; to consume (by fire); to burn to nothing; to burn to the ground; to reduce to ashes
to take flight; to disappear
people; citizens; subjects; folk