notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal
robber; mugger; robbery; burglary
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?
to say; to be called; to do
to exploit; to extort; to squeeze (someone); to squeeze (e.g. oil, juice); to wring out; to press out
to accuse somebody; to charge someone
judgement; judgment; carrying out a sentence (e.g. execution)
life and death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
number of persons; personnel
false accusation; pretext; picking a quarrel; committing oneself
knowing only too well; being fully aware of
to fight against; to oppose; to face
hesitation; indecision; vacillation
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
to be in high spirits; to be full of vigor (vigour); to be enthusiastic; to be eager; to stretch to breaking point
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
camp (supporters of a doctrine, party, etc.); faction (of a party); military camp; encampment; cantonment
small pieces; fragments; chopped meat; scraps (of beef, pork, etc.)
destruction; annihilation; devastation; catastrophe
to shake and untangle; to shake free from
to read out (e.g. data from a computer or process); to retrieve
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed
endurance; perseverance; patience
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
reopening; resumption; restarting
way (of doing); manner; method; means
to finish reading; to read through
cripple; disabled person; invalid
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
no matter what it takes; by any means necessary; at all costs; by hook or by crook
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
revengeful ghost; apparition
to stick into; to pierce; to run into
to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely
autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
increase; multiplication; propagation; proliferation
invincible; unrivaled; unrivalled; matchless; unbeatable; undefeatable
24 hours; twenty-four hours