malicious; spiteful; vicious; shady and damp
to attempt; to test; to try out
to answer; to fire back; to retort; to redo; to do over; to try again
arm wrestling; Indian wrestling; wrestling relying on brute strength (of the arms), rather than skill
proud; boastful; bragging; conceited
as likely as not; 50-50; even match; tie
paying back in installments (instalments); amortization plan (amortisation); gradual demolition; gradual erosion; gradual dismantlement
safety boots; safety shoes; steel-toe boots
to send or direct a person to
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
to install (a king, emperor, etc.); to appoint (to a post); to promote; to assign (to study under)
courtesy call; courtesy visit
future; possible; potential; prospective
to thin out (plants, seedlings, crops, etc.); to cull; to run on a curtailed schedule; to cut down; to kill a newborn child (due to financial difficulties)
taking no notice (of); thinking nothing of; disregarding; not aware of; completely ignoring; being out of consideration
(one's) inner voice; voice of one's heart; what one really thinks
instant; moment; (split) second; (in a) flash; (in the) blink of an eye
to flip-flop; to do an about-face; (lit.) to flip over one's hand; to do something easy
impeccable; unimpeachable; cannot be faulted; above reproach; beyond reproach; faultless
sting operation; undercover investigation
to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair)
starting; inauguration; launch; founding; establishment; start-up
to hold a grudge; to hold something against somebody
gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum
to be scattered around; to be all over the place
quarrelsome; easy to anger; quick to lose temper
to die by drowning; to drown
disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer