maid; helper; help; assistance
preparation; arrangements; getting ready; provision; setup; reserving
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
devising (a way); contriving; device; design; dedication to spiritual improvement (esp. through Zen meditation)
bringing certain death; deadly; knockout (blow)
gas burner; blowtorch; Bunsen burner
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
to recite; to chant; to cry; to yell; to advocate; to advance
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
medium; average; moderation; middle school; China; volume two (of three); during (a certain time when one did or is doing something)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; soaring (prices); shooting up
certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid
trouble; bother; trouble; difficulty; care; attention
strength; power; proficiency; ability
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
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
item; something that one "just has to have"
sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; (with a) bob of the head
turning around; spinning around; curling up; round and charming (e.g. eyes)
to begin to walk; to set out
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune
one's property; personal effects; one's belongings
check; plaid; checking; monitoring; check (banking); cheque
not necessarily so; is not always true
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence (pretense); show; going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction
simple; plain; uncomplicated; straightforward; simple-minded; naive
to watch steadily; to stare
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
autopsy; inquest; investigation of death