palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
consciousness; awareness; relief; calm
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
job hunting; job searching
main theater of war; principal battlefield
war or military record; score; military achievements; results
engagement; business; affair; use; need
to be contrary to; to be inconsistent with; to act contrary to (rules or guidelines); to violate; to oppose; to rebel
basis for decision; evidence for judging
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
to hear a rumor; to get wind of
astringent; bitter; austere; elegant (and unobtrusive); sour (look); glum
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
to accuse somebody; to charge someone
taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story
your Excellency; his Excellency; her Excellency
(undesirable but) inseparable relationship
relationships formed by wealth will end when the money ends; the relationship ends when the money runs out; the end of money is the end of love
concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)
retaliation; revenge; reprisal; retorsion; retortion
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
way (of doing things); method; style; school (e.g. of poetry)
historical play; period drama
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
region; limits; stage; level
assistance payment; subsidiary aid
erasure; denial; obliteration; ignoring (an opinion)
adversary; opposition; hostile forces
blood is thicker than water
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
capable of anything; liable to do
life and death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death