sliding feet; shuffling (one's feet); moving legs forward with feet never leaving the ground (exercise)
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
towering; astonishingly high
less than ...; smaller ...
harsh (taste, feeling, etc.); acrid; sharp (language, question, etc.); biting; nasty; gross
each time; always; often; thank you for your continued patronage
bloomers; (girls') gym shorts
careless person; scatterbrain; birdbrain; hasty person
calculation; reckoning; count; forecast
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
polish; improvement; burnishing
incomplete combustion; imperfect combustion; being off one's game; not doing one's best; being unable to use all of one's strength
to compete; to contend; to vie; to contest
hostility; antagonism; opposition
to burn; to burn with (emotion, feeling); to be fired up
recognizing anew; seeing something in a new light
careless; thoughtless; hasty; rash
dangerous; critical; grave; uncertain; unreliable; dodgy
slovenly (appearance, work, etc.); sloppy; untidy; weak; feeble; weak-willed
display of fireworks; firework(s) display
informal summer clothes for men (short jacket and trousers)
one's heart's desire; one's dearest wish
turns and twists; ups and downs; meandering; complications; vicissitudes
sincere; earnest; serious
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
festival; feast; carnival
slack; loose; lax; slovenly; sloppy
to make merry; to be festive
to show up; to appear; to turn up
suspension; stoppage; discontinuance; interruption
paper doll to which children pray for fine weather (usu. white, and shaped like a Buddhist priest)
dry riverbed; river beach
to a great extent; impressive; staggering; horrible; complete; whole
paper lantern; Chinese lantern; Japanese lantern