to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid
meaningful; suggestive; telling; significant; pregnant (pause etc.)
of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant
the work of man; human feat; something humanly possible
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
literature; books (reference); document
baby girl; primary schoolgirl
absurd; foolish; stupid; silly; nonsense; ludicrous
repeated blows; striking repeatedly; barrage; consecutive hits (e.g. boxing, baseball)
to begin to appear; to begin to come in
excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
what happens twice will happen thrice
extreme cold; intense cold; coldest season; midwinter
how it came about; how it originated; how it happened; the origins of the imbroglio
straying; wandering off course
to look through; to hold up to the light; to make an opening; to leave space; to fart without making a sound
transcendence; excellence; superiority
fishing; angling; change (for a purchase); clickbaiting; trolling; writing deliberately inflammatory posts online
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
black; black (coffee); without cream or milk; exploitative (esp. of employees); overly harsh; boldface
one's post; place of work; workplace
to be degraded; to come down in the world; to lose status; to be ruined; to fall low
to blow fiercely; to rage; (arch.) to play (a flute, etc.) for fun
closing; closure; shutdown; lockout
on countless occasions; many a time
protuberance; bulge; protrusion; rise; uplift; upheaval
lump of ice; block of ice; ice floe
several; various; divergent; conflicting; different; diverse
sound of the expulsion of soft matter mixed with water; diarrhea, etc. sounds; watery
egg white; white-fleshed fish (e.g. tai, hirame, karei); white meat; sapwood
deep-frying without breading or batter; food deep-fried without breading or batter