taciturn; reticent; quiet; silent; untalkative
antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
sum; surface-to-air missile; SAM
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew
association; union; guild
cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack
trade; business; commerce; occupation; calling; profession
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
I; me; myself; (arch.) we; (arch.) us; (arch.) ourselves
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
inherent flavor; inherent flavour; natural taste; distinctive characteristic (of a person, work, etc.); peculiar quality; special ability
stone (of a fruit); pit; core (of an organization, team, etc.); nucleus; nuclear weapons; nucleus (of an atom); nucleus (of a cell)
plot (of a story); plotting (a graph)
development; evolution; expansion; spreading out; expansion (of an algebraic expression); development (of a three-dimensional shape)
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
to discuss; to talk about; to argue; to dispute; to take into consideration; to make an issue of
nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
because; the reason is; if you want to know why
way of talking; speaking style
that; that thing; that person; then; that time; that place (over there); down there (i.e. one's genitals)
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
to be conspicuous; to stand out
separate; special; another; separately