cooking for oneself; cooking one's own food; doing one's own cooking; scanning a book or magazine to create an ebook by oneself
obstruction of business; interference with business
plot; intrigue; scheme; conspiracy; agreement between two or more people to commit an unlawful act
from what (I've) seen; given that ...
one's manners; one's attitude
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
expressing oneself without words or gestures; force of personality
to insult; to say something insulting about; to bad-mouth
outsider; someone outside of a group
to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset
washing (esp. dishes and laundry)
inspection; examination; checking
what do you want?; can I help you?
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing
open; frank; outspoken; unreserved; straightforward; honest
cost of a meal (or meals)
right to know; right to access information
to help each other; to cooperate
close; intimate; on good terms
childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
to print (on); to insert (an illustration); to stencil (a pattern); to instill (a thought, impression, etc.); to imprint (e.g. on one's subconscious)
to be flabbergasted; to be dumbfounded
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
ferocious; fierce; truculent; savage
ferocious; brutal; atrocious; savage; barbarous
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
at that time; in those days
to grab at; to grasp at; to clutch at
to stare at each other; to lock eyes with
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
supply; provision; raising; procurement