aid; assistance; help; cheering; rooting (for); support
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention; motive
to approach; to draw near; to get close; to get acquainted with; to get closer to; to get to know
exclusion; removal; elimination; clearing away; getting rid of
encirclement; encircling net; tight besiegement
several people; a few people
unaware; unmindful; unconscious; blind; apathetic
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
(attacking and) sinking (a ship); sending (a ship) to the bottom; crushing defeat; utter failure; complete exhaustion; collapsing (onto a bed, desk, etc.)
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
empty eyes; thousand-yard stare; blank glaze; expressionless look; (lit.) eyes of a dead fish
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
to make someone's acquaintance; to become acquainted (with)
legal wife of an emperor or king; first wife; queen consort; empress
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
ten; 10; ten years of age
to build a market for; to promote (a product); to promote oneself; to sell oneself; to sell heavily
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; progeny; offspring; paternal blood; lineage; sperm
dangerous weapon; lethal weapon; deadly weapon; murder weapon
to sense; to perceive; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)
to let (someone) hear; to tell (e.g. a story); to make (someone) listen; to make (someone) understand; to grip (someone) with skilful singing, storytelling, etc.; to hold (someone) enchanted by
having had enough (of); fed up (with); sick and tired (of); to learn one's lesson; to learn from a bad experience
to enter; to come in; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to be contained (in); to be included (in); to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.)
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
inside and outside the country; domestic and foreign
to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders
without authority; without reason; unnecessarily; recklessly; indiscriminately
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
being incident to; being accompanied by; being collateral with; being attached to
strange; odd; peculiar; weird; bizarre; unusual