to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
unattractive; ugly; unstylish; uncool
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
important person; influential figure; big shot; big thing; big one; big game
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
to lose one's way; to get lost; to waver; to hesitate; to give into temptation; to lose control of oneself
monologue; soliloquy; talking to oneself
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen
learned society; scientific society; academy; academic meeting; academic conference
to give someone a surprise; to catch off guard and fluster; to frustrate (e.g. someone's plans); to give someone a blow; to scare the hell out of
to insist; to assert; to be obstinate in saying
mama; mamma; mom; female proprietress (of a bar, etc.)
older sister; lass; young lady
to be delighted; to be glad; to congratulate; to gratefully accept
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
memories; recollections; reminiscence
tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play; tragedy; calamity; disaster
sympathy; compassion; pity
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
denouement; ending; conclusion; (grand) finale
even; (if) only; just; besides; on top of that
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...
difficult to ...; hard to ...
stretch; tension; resilience; springiness; will-power; pluck
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
to call; to invite; to eat; to drink; to put on; to wear; to ride
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
(looking) blankly; vacantly; dazedly; (staring) in puzzlement; with a look of amazement
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was