staunch; hardcore; dyed-in-the-wool; metal reinforcement
simple honesty; tactless frankness
honestly speaking; in truth; in all honesty; to be frank
up through; up until; down to; from ... to ... (e.g. from head to toe); everything from ... to ...
crumpled; rumpled; to be annoyed; to be irritated; noisily (chewing)
to bawl; to cry; to scream
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
older brother; elder brother
malicious; vicious; malignant; shoddy; inferior; poor-quality
above ground; on the ground; earth's surface; this world; this earth
littering; (carelessly) tossing away
to curse (at someone); to call someone names; to speak bitterly
to speak ill of; to disparage
senility; senile decay; infirmity (through age)
laboratory animal; experimental animal
hit; success; guess; prediction; affability; friendliness; sensation
to be dispirited; to be dejected; to be disheartened; to lose heart
whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")
baseball player; ballplayer
gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); plagiarism; rip-off
to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience
strike (i.e. industrial action)
hailing each other; acting in concert; responding (to); agreement; concord
every conceivable; every single; every possible; all kinds of
roundup (criminals, animals, etc.); manhunt; crackdown; swoop; raid
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
accumulation; accumulate; store
to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses
pastel color; pastel colour
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...
praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis)