scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
still; even now; to this day
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
cleaning; clean-up; garbage collection; scavenging
group; party; team; organization; organisation; association
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
personnel; members; lineup (of a team); announcement of next day's match-ups
to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
littering; (carelessly) tossing away
cigarette end; cigarette butt; tobacco ashes
to pick up; to find; to gather
staff member; employee; worker; personnel
to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)
dozens; scores of; decades
sermon; preaching; remonstration; scolding; lecturing
attempt; trial; experiment; endeavour (endeavor); effort; venture
repetition; repeat; reiteration; repeatedly
unshapely; unsightly; clumsy; unpresentable; uncouth; awkward
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
anything and everything; just about everything
impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
retrogression; regression
equipment; facilities; installation; accommodations; conveniences; arrangements
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
sleepy; drowsy; somnolent
yawn; yawning; kanji "yawning" radical (radical 76)
noisy; boisterous; turbulent (era, etc.); troubled
hallway slippers; indoor shoes; overshoes; rubbers; galoshes