disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
smuggling (people); stowing away
defense; defence; protection
art of self-defense (defence)
tempering (metal); annealing; forging; toughening; disciplining; training
sense of values; values; value system
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
senior high school; high school
to haul in (hand over hand); to pull in; to draw in; to trace (history, threads of a story, etc.); to retrace (e.g. memories); to go over
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
dislike; disgust; disinclination; tired of
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless
price; cost; value; worth; value
to get; to secure; to learn; to master; to complete
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
since some time or another; since who-knows-when
front-facing; forward-looking; positive; constructive
to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
to be noticeable; to notice; to catch one's eye
check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque
to bury; to embed; to implant
container (e.g. shipping); skip
easy; smooth; without a hitch; quick
a little over; a little more than; powerhouse; one of the biggest; upper (seismic intensity)
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
dissection; autopsy; analysis
pickled (something); pickled in (something); preserved in; overreliance on (e.g. medication); excessive use of
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
to comfort; to console; to amuse
to get information out of a person; to begin listening