breaking off a relationship; permanent breach of friendship; rupture
to announce; to tell; to sentence; to order
potential; latent faculties; potential capacities
first-class goods; A-grade product
ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly
murder; killing; murderer
to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand
sharpness; cutting ability; quickness (of wit); incisiveness; peppiness (of a ball)
reinforcements; reserve troops; rear guard; attacking from the rear; pincer movement from the back
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
real experience; actual observations
clear; clear-cut; lucid; unequivocal; explicit
to reduce (one's) speed; to slow down (driving, cycling, etc.)
platform; home; home base; home plate
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
backlight (in photography, etc.); illumination (of the subject) from behind
light (e.g color, fabric); faint; somehow; kind of; scarce; slim
counter for birds or rabbits
mayfly; ephemerality (of life); (arch.) dragonfly
to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension
impossible to do (although wants to)
of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant
trickling (of water); flickering (of fire); darting about (e.g. a small animal); scampering about
four times; four-colour process printing; CMYK printing
multi-tenant building; building containing a mixture of businesses, shops and residential apartments
fancy restaurant; expensive restaurant
ryotei; traditional Japanese restaurant (esp. a luxurious one)
haughty; arrogant; pompous; self-important
vulgar; coarse; crude; boorish; ill-mannered; mean
boor; rustic; country bumpkin; lout
careless; thoughtless; rash; rude; at fault
to speak; to talk; to mediate; to act as a go-between; to put in a good word (for someone)
jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point
to fail; to blunder; to mess up; to be dismissed; to be fired
Chen (ancient Chinese state; approx. 1045-479 BCE); Ch'en; Chen dynasty (of China; 557-589 BCE); Ch'en dynasty
to make out to be; to set someone up (as); to prepare (e.g. someone for a role); to make (e.g. "a man out of him"); to frame
passionate; ardent; enthusiastic
unpleasant; uncomfortable; creepy; spooky