to underrate; to belittle; to look down on; to despise
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)
person of high rank or position
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
viewing as ...; seeing as ...; treating as ...; regarding as ...
real condition; actual circumstances; actual state of affairs
ingenious; skillful; clever; deft
chief; main; principal; major
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
puppet operator; puppet manipulator; puppeteer
to play with (a toy, one's hair, etc.); to fiddle with; to toy with (one's emotions, etc.); to trifle with; to do with something as one pleases; to appreciate
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
human nature; human heart; public feeling; people's sentiments; consciousness; awareness
to display one's real ability; to show one's real ability; to show one's stuff; to show oneself at one's best; to really shine; to come into one's own
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
looks; personal appearance; features
demon; devil; evil spirit; monster; goblin; apparition
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
nature; natural constitution; innate disposition
human experiment; human experimentation; experiment on a living person
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
personal; individual; private
house where one was born; one's parents' house
whole nation; whole land; whole country
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around
meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence
yielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing
to force; to compel; to coerce; to press; to impose
personification; impersonation; embodiment
future; possible; potential; prospective
to rise in revolt; to raise the standard of revolt
underlying cause; indirect cause; remote cause
emphasis; highlight; stress; stressed point
good; goodness; right; virtue
evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy
transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; to transcend; to rise above