to love; to cherish; to admire; to appreciate
to tell X from Y; to distinguish; to know (one thing) from (another)
some; any; please; anyway; anyhow
(stand to) attention!; standing at attention
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
to run counter to; to go against; to disobey; to infringe
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
early (days); initial stage; initial
to become confused (disconcerted, disorganized, disorganised); to be flustered; to panic; to hurry; to rush; to hasten
optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
what's the matter?; what's wrong?
to rush over; to run up to
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
bad (taste); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
to unfold; to unroll; to open
to draw (a thread); to let out (e.g. a rope); to head out as a group; to set out in large numbers; to send out one after another; to dispatch
amount of material resources
war; battle; match; game; competition
exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste
impatience; uneasiness; irritation; fretfulness
teaching; instruction; teachings; precept; lesson; doctrine
space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
attendance; presence; appearance
situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
pressure; urgency; tension; imminence; acuteness
or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still
any- (e.g. anything, anywhere, anyone); -ever (e.g. whatever, wherever, whenever); even (if it's just ...); at least; either ... or ...
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
very much; very many; more and more
modus operandi; criminal technique; trick
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
organizational capability; organisational capability
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)
verbal message; word (from someone)
dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp
truth or falsehood; genuineness; authenticity; veracity
diversion (action meant to attract attention away from the real objective); feint
early; a little earlier than usual; a little faster than usual; slightly quicker