necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
boorish; unsophisticated; unrefined; uncouth; tasteless; insensitive
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
three colours; three colors; triple run; winning hand containing the same chow in each of the three suits; triple pung; winning hand containing the same pung in each of the three suits
pure double chow; winning hand containing two identical chows (i.e. same numbers and same suit)
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
considerably; greatly; a lot
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
to go with (a companion); to hang out with; to do together
to change; to alter; to transform; to reform; to revise; to amend
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
papier mâché; something that looks good superficially
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
hostess (in a hostess bar)
what?!; what did you say?!; why?; what for?; anyone; anything
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
poor person; pauper; the poor; the indigent
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
to try and do something; to attempt to do something
to flatter; to curry favor with; to curry favour with; to flirt with (woman with a man); to make eyes at (a man)
to be silent; to say nothing
plain; simple; reserved (behaviour, attitude, etc.); modest; quite; a (little) bit
being left out; being excluded; being ostracized
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
feeling; sense; impression
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
consequence; outcome; result; blame