if I'm forced to say something; if anything; if I must say; if I must choose
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
to shrink back; to wince; to flinch; to recoil
to soften; to calm down; to be eased; to be mitigated; to subside; to abate
hiding place; hideout; refuge; retreat; hideaway
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
circulation; rotation; cycle; loop
without leaving any trace
teacher; instructor; professor
talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
toddling; with small, quick steps; restlessly; in continuous motion; quickly and easily; often
stiffening; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; ossification; petrification
bits and pieces; frizzily (as in perm)
hostility; animosity; enmity
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
answering one's own question; wondering to oneself; soliloquizing; soliloquising
guilty conscience; feelings of remorse
to jump upon (a moving object)
with a start; with a jump
to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
saying something (to someone); greeting; approaching (someone)
to bring near; to bring close; to let go near; to associate with; to bring (people) together; to let come near (of a person)
to jump from one thing to another
right arm; right-hand man; right hand; right-handed pitcher
ancient time; age of the gods
recorded in history; historical
dawning (of a new era); dawn
above ground; on the ground; earth's surface; this world; this earth
to live; to reside; to inhabit
cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang
perpetual youth and longevity; immortality
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry
the most; the best; peerless; the greatest; first-rate
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
an extremely great number (often said to be 100 million); 10^60 (or 10^72)
first day (e.g. at work, school); day one