hard; tough; hardware; hard disk
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to talk; to chat; to chatter
senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer
spell; curse; incantation
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
mysterious power of words to alter reality
amplification (elec.); magnification; amplification; making larger
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
consideration; taking into account
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
convenient; handy; useful
(real) ability; true strength; merit; arms; force
difference; variation; difference
case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.); Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
double; twice (as much); times (as much); -fold; 1-nth; 1 to n
strong; potent; strong; brawny; good (at); skilled; being able to handle
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
reaction; recoil; kick; backlash
to return; to come back; to turn over; to become extremely; to become completely
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
dimension; perspective; point of reference; level (of something)
such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
to return (something); to restore; to turn over; to turn upside down; to pay back; to retaliate; to respond (with)
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
draw (in go, poetry contest, etc.); tie
something used to cover the eyes; blindfold; blinder; concealing one's home such that the interior cannot be seen from outside