unperturbed; undaunted; retaining composure; unyielding; not giving an inch
not necessarily so; is not always true
so (e.g. so much, so close, so many, so few)
massive failure; debacle; fiasco
to search for; to seek for; to look for
happy; cheerful; pleasant
return gift; return favour (favor); revenge; change (in a cash transaction)
origin; source; beginning; starting point
in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se
tool; implement; means; furniture
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
to be suspicious of (someone's motives); to suspect (that)
to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
careless person; scatterbrain; birdbrain; hasty person
unconsciously; unwittingly; unawares
to mix; to stir; to blend
to distinguish; to recognize; to recognise; to tell apart; to differentiate
mysterious power of words to alter reality
source (e.g. of a river); headwaters; origin of something continuous (language, culture, etc.)
action; operation; effect; function
one's heart; one's feelings; one's inner thoughts; one's mind
(divine) revelation; divine oracle
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
gushing forth; bursting out; (lit.) like breaking a dam
to fall completely silent; to become still as death
enjoyable; fun; pleasant; happy; delightful
before one's very eyes; under one's nose; imminence; close at hand
to jump up; to spring up; to move around; to bounce up and down; to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement); to throb
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state
description; describing; depicting
with a smooth, unhindered motion; speedily and without delay
authorization; authorisation; acknowledgment; acknowledgement; certification; recognition
in hand; on hand; on one; handheld
surface of a board or record
condition; situation; prospects
elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding
to be in the firing line; to bear the brunt of (an attack, criticism, etc.); to face (e.g. questioning)
being well versed (in); being well acquainted (with); being familiar (with); (a boy's) first ejaculation; spermarche; semenarche
selection; making a choice; sifting; decision to adopt or reject
greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable