magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
deadly serious; deadly earnest
work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty
to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily
bad mannered; naughty; misbehaving
to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; one cup after another; cup by cup
setback; failure (e.g. plans, business); frustration; discouragement
in accordance with; according to
to follow (road); to pursue (course); to follow up; to follow (hyperlink)
world; society; people; the public
official announcement; proclamation
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both
to have something on one's mind; to have (undisclosed) reservations; to feel conflicted
to choke up; to be speechless; to hold one's tongue
confusion; distraction; derangement
not watching where one is driving; not keeping one's eyes on the road
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
impatience; uneasiness; irritation; fretfulness
does not seem; unlikely; improbable
female university student; female college student
parroting back; repeating (something one was told) like a parrot
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
insipid; flat; dull; lifeless; listless
class (e.g. school); grade; rank; kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
or something; or something like that; or words to that effect; something or other
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
proficient; skillful; enjoying; satisfaction; satiation
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
function; facility; faculty; feature
I; me; self-centered man; egotistical man; pompous man
to concede one is entirely in the wrong (for the sake of argument)