moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about
every corner; every nook and cranny; all the ins and outs
distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
to step forward; to volunteer
to put out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to reach (for); to try one's hand at (something new)
stone wall; dry wall; rocky cliff; stone precipice
furthermore; adding to the above-mentioned; not quite; not very good; lacking
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
to stroke; to caress; to brush gently; to comb (hair); to smooth down
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
symbol; code; sign; notation
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
to stick (to); to cling (to); to stay (e.g. in the office)
to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
to be impatient; to be eager; to be restless; to be excited; to be in high spirits
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
independence; self-reliance; independence (e.g. of a nation); freedom; separation; isolation
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
exploitation; bleeding dry; squeezing dry; milking (e.g. a cow's teat); extracting (a liquid) through squeezing
independence; self-reliance
self-defense; self-defence
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se