to rebuke; to scold; to tell off; to question persistently (in order to criticize or find fault with somebody)
alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume; different name; other name
assistance; backing; reinforcements
to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (handbills, etc.); to spread (rumours, etc.); to give the slip; to throw off
to teach someone a lesson; to show someone a thing or two; to show someone what one can do
selling like mad; selling like hotcakes; flying off the shelves
second half of the year; second half of the fiscal year
to ask a high price; to overcharge
marking; grading; scoring
negative; negative (e.g. thinking)
to be cured; to be healed; to cure; to heal; to rule
surrender; submission; capitulation; being defeated (e.g. by a problem); giving up; giving in
the very end; finish; to the very end; to the last; thoroughly
maintaining the status quo
depravity; corruption; degradation
fire fighting; fire department; fire brigade
patrolling; one's rounds; inspection tour; watchman; patrolman
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
one's future; one's fate; one's way; one's path
baton (of command); order; command; direction
strategist; tactician; schemer
(social) position; status
common foot soldier (feudal Japan); samurai of the lowest rank
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
to leave nothing undone; to give good service; to attend to everything; to be on someone's tracks (e.g. police); to catch up with; to close in on
action committee; executive committee
one's assessment of the situation
to be all out (e.g. of people); to be all elsewhere; to be all in use (e.g. of cars); to be sold out; to have none left
speaking fondly about one's sweetheart (spouse, girlfriend, etc.); going on about one's love affairs
dropping (of tears, dew, etc.); falling off; dropping off; inadvertently (coming to the surface); letting out (e.g. a secret)
bare minimum; minimum necessary (amount, number, etc.)
family tradition; (arch.) wind blowing from the direction of one's home
garden (esp. with trees); park
reader (person); person who reads the cards (in karuta games); composer (of a poem)
attention; kind attention; courteous attention
not serious; frivolous; insincere; unsteady