resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
undeserved good luck; luck of the devil; dumb luck; bad luck
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
to have a bad time; to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to suffer
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree
in a crowd; ganging up (on); joining forces
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
one's post; place of work; workplace
around the world; throughout the world
way (of doing); manner; method; means
presentation (of documents); submission (of an application, report, etc.); production (e.g. of evidence); introduction (e.g. of a bill); filing; turning in
to lend an ear to; to listen to
calm; quiet; gentle; moderate; reasonable; amicable
to give up (a plan or idea); to desist from (doing)
price; cost; value; worth; value
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect
what is it (that); the meaning of something; what something is about
low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.); low (position); close to the ground; short (height); deep (voice); in a low key
impression; strong belief; conviction
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink
to collect oneself; to cool off; to recover oneself
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); very
hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker
compatibility; coexistence; standing together