to be evasive; to give an evasive answer; to speak ambiguously; to prevaricate; to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation; to make do with
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
wood chip; splinter; thin shingles
copy-and-paste; copypasta; block of text which is copied and pasted across the Internet
look; glance; sight; summary; list; table
several times; once or twice
joke; pun; jest; smartly dressed; stylish; fashion-conscious
if one is unlucky; if one is careless
to take seriously; to believe in; to fall for
to have something on one's mind; to have (undisclosed) reservations; to feel conflicted
operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke
to come out all right; to take care of itself; to be OK
violence by weight of numbers; tyranny of the majority
a little more than usual; bribe money added to a regular fee; and then some
dealing appropriately (with a situation); taking proper measures; handling (an issue) carefully; making the best of (a bad bargain)
understood; I see; OK; present; here
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe
device; equipment; machinery; apparatus
lightly; gaping wide; suddenly; unexpectedly
(one's) skin colour; skin color; skin tone; flesh colour (of a Japanese person); flesh color; pale orange
to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
to change color (esp. leaves, fruit, flowers) (colour); to turn crimson (e.g. leaves in autumn); to begin to redden; to ripen; to grow ripe
to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment
white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much
to criticize harshly; to blame; to accuse; to urge; to press
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
rather; sooner; preferably