well-known; noted; celebrated
kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
worldly wisdom; secret of success in life
beyond one's control; nothing one can do
to become poor; to be poor
reducing the number of mouths one needs to feed (esp. by giving up children for adoption, apprenticeship, etc.)
to eke out a living; to get a bare livelihood; to live from hand to mouth
breaking down; defeating; abolishing
not having enough workers; being understaffed; being undermanned; having nothing one can do about something; having no options
to stagnate; to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to become sluggish; to become dull; to be delayed
expansion and contraction; elasticity; flexibility
lumping together (things or people); treating (everyone) alike; handling indiscriminately; making sweeping generalizations; dealing with (various things) under one head
pipsqueak; little runt; midget; dwarf
unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very
slow; sluggish; dull; lax; sloppy; lenient
target area (e.g. archery); range (e.g. rifle, firing)
commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane
rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom
to issue a manifesto; to appeal
treason; treachery; mutiny; rebellion; insurrection
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
lasciviousness; lechery; salaciousness; lust; sensuality; lewdness
passionate; hot-blooded; full of vitality
to reach a situation about which nothing can be done
to change way one holds something; to transfer something from one hand to the other
conductor's stick; conductor's baton
archery; mapping; map; morphism
explosive blast (in construction, mining, etc.); blasting
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
in some way; somehow or other; somewhere or other