to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
screw; key (of a clock, watch, etc.); spring (of a clock, watch, etc.)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
maid cafe; cafe with waitresses dressed in cute maid costumes
losing posture; falling position from which it is impossible to recover; lame duck; hopeless situation
in spite of; regardless of
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
successfully; fairly; artfully; nicely; thoroughly
interval; space; valley; gorge; loophole (in a wall); crenel
to scatter away; to vanish
boundary; (nuclear) criticality; critical (mass, pressure, temperature, state, point, etc.)
ominous; sinister; (arch.) annoying; (arch.) appearing to be true; (arch.) plausible
to follow with one's gaze; to follow with the eyes
yours sincerely; respectfully yours
operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking
to drop; to let fall; to omit
three; three years of age
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor
to tear off; to pluck off; to take forcibly
eyesight; vision; visual acuity
beyond imagination; unimaginable
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
to invade; to raid; to infringe; to encroach; to harm; to afflict
coming and going; recurring (esp. thoughts)
sense of emptiness; empty feeling; feeling of meaninglessness
to push away; to push aside; to shove
to twist; to wrench; to puzzle over; to defeat easily
to kick flying (often a person in sport, martial arts, etc.)
tie-dye; tie-dyeing; aperture (e.g. camera, iris of the eye); aperture stop; contraction; squeezing
dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
to succeed in doing; to manage to do; to finish doing
cliff edge; edge of a precipice; perilous position; critical moment; brink
life and death; life or death
at once; immediately; right now