to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to
livelihood; subsistence; business; trade; profession
godparent; first person to give something its name
emotional attachment; attitude (expressing emotion); meditative pose (e.g. an actor); posing for effect
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
tobacco; cigarette; cigaret; tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)
money-making; earning money
weeding out; elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees); culling; selection (e.g. natural selection)
to live through hell; to go to hell and back; to suffer dire straits
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
to scorn; to despise; to hold in contempt; to look down on; to disdain
to be dying; to be about to die; to be close to death
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...
world; society; people; the public
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
look; glimpse; apparently; seemingly; (arch.) first meeting
rustic; rude; vulgar; rough
antipodes; other (opposite) extreme; opposite; antithesis
to doubt; to think (something is) doubtful; to wonder; to be suspicious
incommunicative; taciturn
on a routine basis; regularly; habitually
(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
eleven; 11; jack (playing card); Hodgson's hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus fugax); Horsfield's hawk cuckoo
from now; from the present moment; from this time forward; henceforth
distinguished service; meritorious service
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
end of war; cessation of hostilities
Korean person (esp. North Korean); Korean people
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony