checking answers (e.g. to homework problems); verifying one's answers
to trick someone (into confirming or revealing the truth); to ask a leading question
to backfire; to have a harmful result
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
antipodes; other (opposite) extreme; opposite; antithesis
back; backing; going backwards; background; backdrop; backhand; backer
older person with more life experience
careful; thorough; meticulous; scrupulous
to confess; to speak out; to disclose; to tell
to be suspicious of (someone's motives); to suspect (that)
to attack the enemy in his unguarded moment
to make the sign of the cross; to bless oneself; to cross oneself
to pray; to say a prayer; to offer up a prayer
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
to be extremely sleepy; to be at the brink of falling asleep
to feel giddy; to totter; to be unfixed (emotions, beliefs, etc.); to waver; to wander aimlessly; to loiter
to place both hands on the ground (to express respect, apology or to present a request)
cancellation; rescinding; release; calling off; lifting (sanctions); delisting
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; thank you very much (for help, etc.)
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
cloudiness; turbidity; nebula (medical)
to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal
to shake; to jolt; to rock (cradle); to swing
to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with somebody)
principle; aim; purport; gist; instructions; orders
to take (someone) away; to carry off; to abduct; to kidnap
double-dealing; double tongue; going back on what one has said; repeating oneself
to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
external wound; (physical) trauma
hold; catch; connection; relationship; unease; discomfort
the same; the said; likewise
to present; to offer; to show; to display; to assume (e.g. a shape)
leak (of secrets, information, etc.); disclosure; divulging; leak (of gas, liquid, etc.); leakage; escape (of gas)
to give (time, money, goods); to donate; to do; to perform; to apply (processing, makeup, etc.); to add (e.g. ornamentation, annotation)
several times; once or twice
to make trouble; to rock the boat; to make waves; to aggravate a situation
to think too much; to be over-concerned