to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set
side job; sideline; subsidiary business
instead; but (on the other hand)
north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind
tower; steeple; spire; stupa; pagoda; dagoba
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
duty; obligation; responsibility
mixed race; mixed parentage
reigning (over a country); dominating; controlling; dictating
vanguard; advance-guard point; advance detachment; vanguard; pioneer; avant-garde
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
subordination; servitude; servility; subordinate; underling
(distant) future; future existence; world beyond the grave; future (tense)
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
to say (something) over one's shoulder
national politics; political situation; statecraft; body politic
man who takes his wife's family name and marries into her family; man who is adopted by his wife's family
to happen to have; to have on hand; to carry (e.g. money)
haughty; arrogant; insolent; presumptuous
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
to look down on; to condescend
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
to push up; to thrust up; to put pressure on (one's superiors); to pressure; to well up (of an emotion); to surge up
participation; taking part in; participating in; being concerned in
to put (into); to put away (in); to pay (fees, taxes, etc.); to deliver; to accept (a gift or money); to keep (within a limit); to offer (to a shrine, deity, etc.)
under development; in development
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (of China; 9-23 CE)
opposition; rebellion; rebounding; recoiling; rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery
inevitable; unavoidable; certain; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
antipathy; antagonism; animosity; revulsion; ill feeling
unexpected; unlikely; terrible; awful; very; extremely
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
throw; throwing; resigning (a game of shogi, go, etc.); giving up; selling at a loss; sell-off
consent; approval; acceptance; agreement; compliance