gem; jewel; precious stone
potentiality; dormancy; latency
valid; effective; yuko (judo)
way to use something; treatment; management (of help)
to harm; to cause harm to
Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production, from 1958-1960); significant breakthrough; great strides
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on
medical treatment (esp. surgical)
substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality
manageable; tractable; easy to care for; easy to deal with; easy to handle
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
fireball; ball of fire; will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
to flicker; to quiver; to waver; to sway
to reflect; to throw back light
to commit seppuku; to commit harakiri; to take responsibility (and resign); (arch.) to laugh until one splits one's side
to remove; to deinstall; to take away; to set apart
container; receptacle; vessel; packaging
preservation; conservation; storage; saving (e.g. to disk)
to be submerged; to be soaked; to be pickled; to be well seasoned; to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)
in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
array; muster; line-up; full force
to talk; to carry meaning
to do one's best; to put forth every effort
nausea; sickness in the stomach
to cut up; to cut and discard; to eliminate systematically (in fault-finding); to isolate
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
dissection; autopsy; analysis
to pound (e.g. heart); to pulse (e.g. vein); to pulsate
party; set; gang; company; person
to trample underfoot; to tread on; to crush with a foot
to reflect on (oneself, past conduct, etc.); to contemplate; to examine; to think over; to introspect
haughty; arrogant; insolent; proud; overbearing
to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince
to deliver; to extradite; to stretch across; to hand over
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
right away; without delay; as soon as possible; very soon