I would rather; I would as lief do; strong preference
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to wander about; to roam about; to knock around
ordinary person; average person; mediocre person
fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare
to drag along; to pull; to force someone along; to prolong; to drag out; to influence strongly
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
book; volume; this; present; main; head
to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain
featureless (face); expressionless; flat; flat (terrain); smooth
meaning; significance; sense
by myself; in person; by oneself
tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
too much; excessively; too
model; type (e.g. of machine, goods, etc.); type; style; mold (mould); template; kata (standard form of a movement, posture, etc. in martial arts, sport, etc.)
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
to knock down; to tear down; to crush (e.g. enemy); to throw into confusion; to refute; to pick apart
to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind
now (when it is already much too late); at this stage; afresh; anew; again
to begin to attend (e.g. school)
to remove; to deinstall; to take away; to set apart
incompetence; inefficiency; inability; incompetent person
frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed
to pretend to be tough; to put on a brave front; to whistle in the dark; to bluff
stirring; rousing oneself
aspect; phase; condition; modality (philosophy)
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
to knock down; to beat (someone) up; to injure (someone) so badly they cannot recover (esp. emotionally); to overwhelm (with mental anguish, etc.)
day by day; by the day; (arch.) daily; (arch.) every day
sense of helplessness; feeling of powerlessness
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
beyond this point; from now on; after this
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
quite; utterly; really; completely
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
to mourn; to lament; to be sorry; to regret; to repent
hasty; rash; rushed; hurried; impatient; impetuous