to destroy; to crush; to break by striking; to spoil; to ruin
meaning; point (e.g. of a statement); gist; goal; intent; object
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
hi!; yo!; hey man!; hey dude!
dullard (gen. from not picking up on other people's feelings)
rare; strange; odd; peculiar
offstage; backstage; behind the scenes
central pillar (of a building); mainstay (e.g. of an economy); backbone (e.g. of a family); provider
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
exaggeration; overstatement; saying too much; misstatement; slip of the tongue; gaffe
extreme; terrible; absurd; unreasonable; fool; idiot
thinly; slightly; vaguely; a little
to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)
liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point
imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-
danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
brute; beast; monster; inhuman person; ungrateful person
inside out; upside down; flip side; opposite; contrary
pop; signage; display; billboard (as used to decorate arcade games)
not permitting; not authorizing
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
un-; non-; negative prefix
seppuku; harakiri; ritual suicide by disembowelment; seppuku as a death penalty (where the convict is decapitated by a second as they make the motions to disembowel themself; Edo period)
back-facing; backwards; backward-looking; retrogressive; reactionary
clanging (of a bell); jangling; ding-dong; continuously; incessantly; one after another
Q&A; question and answer
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
everywhere; all over; throughout
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
save; checking; curbing; suppressing
practice; practising; training; study
stickiness; gumminess; sticky material; clay
to be sore; to be inflamed; to be bleary; to be dissipated; to be dissolute; to indulge in