investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
(political) power; authority; influence
to become inverted; to become reversed
advantage; benefit; merit; good point; plus
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
my; one's own; I ...; one ...
ancestor; forefather; originator; pioneer; grandfather
taking great pains (to do); making every effort; having a lot of trouble (doing); racking one's brains
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
counter for generations; epoch
splish-splash; with a splash; click-click (of a camera shutter); with a click; with a snap
prison; jail; gaol; firm; solid; strong
poisoning; kill by poison
to try and do something; to attempt to do something
to take hold of; to possess; to haunt
too much; excessively; too
to probe; to search; to sound out; to investigate
feeling uneasy; very worried; very anxious; on tenterhooks; on pins and needles
messenger; envoy; emissary
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
(one's) master; Lord; the main thing; the majority
to be accompanied by; to be attended by; to take along (someone); to conquer; to subjugate; to subdue
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply
underground spring; Hades; hell; underworld
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
last days; the end; one's fate
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
return; coming back; second coming (e.g. of Christ); second advent; reincarnation
to hate each other; to hate mutually
tattoo (esp. a traditional Japanese one); tattooing
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded
to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
to shake one's head (in denial)
the ... after next; two ... later; two ... after