hard to please; moody; crusty; fastidious
root; joint; base; crotch
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
cracking sound (e.g. cracking one's knuckles); crunching sound
no, not like that (but like this)
participation; joining; entry; adherence
right to know; right to access information
self-aggrandizement under pretense of aiding another (aggrandisement, pretence)
personality; character; individuality; personhood
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
dysfunction (often medical); malfunction; insufficiency
stinging; smarting; on edge; nervous; ripping; peeling
fluff; fuzz; nap; hachures; hatching
hard; tough; hardware; hard disk
pinch; crisis; tough spot; clothespin
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
unpleasant feelings (e.g. hatred, disgust, revulsion, fear)
physiological; physical; visceral; instinctive; in one's guts
tightness (of money, financial conditions, etc.); pressure; stringency; being strained (of a situation); being tense; being pressing
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
gap; difference; disparity; discrepancy
how much; how many; however
administrative; businesslike; practical; impersonal; perfunctory; robot-like
to remove; to clear away; to except from; to make an exception of; to lay aside; to set aside
makings (of); aptitude; talent; nature; character; temperament
to become speechless; to be at a loss for words
overanxiety; needless worry
to step into (e.g. someone else's territory); to break into; to raid; to come to grips with; to get to the core of
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
competent; suitable; qualified
feeling; sense; impression
action; movements; motions; bearing; behaviour; behavior
opposite side; reverse; (on the) other hand
the same kind; accomplice; partner
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled; mowing down the enemy