payback; tit for tat; retaliation; doing over again; redoing
(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups
misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune
losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown
to stub out (e.g. a cigarette); to crush out; to smother (fire); to hush up; to cover up; to stifle
to go wrong; to go awry; to go off track; to go out of whack
badness; evilness; bad; evil
social; societal; societary
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
sex slave; sexual slavery
tirthika; non-Buddhist teachings; heterodoxy; unorthodoxy; demon; devil
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
artificial object; man-made object; artifact; artefact
person (or their spirit) who died with no one to tend their grave
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
being alone; solitude; loneliness; orphan
treating (someone) with great caution (so as not to anger or upset them); handling with kid gloves; treating gingerly
whereabouts; place; location; place where one belongs; where one fits in; place where one can be oneself
to throw into; to toss into
talking about one's misfortunes; tales of one's misfortunes
yielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
quite a chore; not that easy; fairly difficult
promotion; advancement; rising in rank
uncharted territory; unknown waters; unfamiliar terrain
humanity; sidewalk; footpath; human realm
to fiddle with; to monkey around with
(having) life-and-death power (over)
foothold; footing; toehold; stepping stone
honor; honour; credit; prestige
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
to divide; to separate; to share; to distribute; to distinguish
the dead; ghost; person who is obsessed (with money, power, etc.); person with a blind lust (for)