inveigling; ensnaring; enticement; cajoling
wonderful; astounding; marvellous
person who is hard to please; difficult person; grouch; sourpuss
to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to cozy up (to); to butter up
carelessly; inattentively
master and servant; lord and retainer; employer and employee
(sudden) change; reversal; turn-around; coming from behind (baseball)
desire to succeed in life; ambition to make one's mark in the world
help; rescue; salvation; solace; (religious) salvation; (Christian) grace
village; hamlet; settlement
slave labour; slave labor; compulsory service; forced labour; forced labor; exacted service
land readjustment; town planning
cultivating new land; clearing; reclamation
to hammer out the details; to work out details
all out; like hell; like crazy; desperately; (lit.) expecting to die
to mistake someone for someone else; to misread; to misjudge
flight (e.g. airline flight); trip (e.g. train trip); mail; post; opportunity; chance
three times; thrice; third (musical interval); many times; over and over again
astonishment; amazement; surprise; fright; shock
price; cost; value; worth; value
overseas student; exchange student
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
receiving; acceptance; reception
to screw in; to thrust into; to push into; to protest (and seek rectification); to complain
ordinary; average; run-of-the-mill
appointment (to an office); investiture; commission
substance; essence; real (in economics, vs. nominal, e.g. real interest rate); substantive; substantial
confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
treasure; treasured item; prized possession
valid; proper; right; appropriate; reasonable
jue (ancient 3-legged Chinese wine pitcher, usu. made of bronze); peerage (hereditary title bestowed by the emperor)
recommendation; referral; endorsement
to marry (a woman); to take to wife; to take in marriage
very young; little; childish; immature
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess
rather; sooner; preferably
adopted daughter; foster daughter
proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly
wooden joints; paired karate kata; beltwork
shout (of encouragement, etc.); yell (used to time or encourage activity, e.g. "Heave ho!")