futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
one large animal (horses, cattle, etc.); head (of cattle)
large build; large pattern
way one walks; one's walk
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie
Asian black bear (Selenarctos thibetanus); moon bear
pup; puppy; whelp; damn dog; mutt
shot; charge; blow; punch; home run; try
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
departure; departing (from ...); sending; sent (by ...); engine; counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.
particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology
to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate
victory or defeat; match; contest; game
reserve; spare; preparation; preliminaries
single shot gun; one-loader gun
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
to have guts; to be unwavering in one's resolution
front; frontage; facade; main
to stand in the way (esp. with legs spread out); to block the way; to stand in the way (e.g. of progress); to obstruct
to be surprised; to be astonished
to feel nervous; to feel afraid; to be startled; to be surprised; (arch.) to be shy; (arch.) to be bashful
collapsing in the street (from exhaustion, illness, etc.); falling dead in the street; person lying dead in the street
just because; even if; even though
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
home town; birthplace; native place; (arch.) ruins; (arch.) historic remains
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
childbirth; (giving) birth; delivery; production (of goods)
trace; tracks; site; remains; scar
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase