obligation; favour; favor; debt of gratitude
to stake; to risk; to bet; to wager
merchant; trader; expert (in a trade or profession); professional; woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); demimondaine
to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set
battlefield; battleground
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
floating ball of fire (said to be the soul of a dead person); meteor; shooting star
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
to yield oneself (to something); to devote oneself (to something); to surrender oneself (to something)
to use to the full (one's voice, energy, etc.); to muster all of (one's strength, courage, etc.); to summon all of; to exert fully; to strain (one's voice)
as expected; predictably; not surprisingly
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
to recognize by sound (recognise); to identify by sound; to understand; to be reasonable
close investigation; careful examination; scrutiny
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
to attempt; to test; to try out
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
to pick up; to find; to gather
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
processing; dealing with; treatment; disposition; disposal
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage; bleeding money; red ink; selling below cost
tinnitus; ringing in the ears
deeply; keenly; severely; intently; carefully; closely
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to be peevish; to sulk; to pout
space; interval; space character; whitespace
appeal; call for something; request; axiom
running; gliding; first (harvest) of the season; beginning; start; kitchen sink
reopening; resumption; restarting
suspension; stoppage; discontinuance; interruption
sea of people; (very large) crowd of people
drama; play; powerful drug
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
what would (you) do?; what to do about it