reserve; spare; treasured; valued; (ace) up one's sleeve; trump
it's not like; it isn't as if
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination
putting life into; animating; cheering up
this is why; this means; it is the case that
to give and take; to make mutual concessions; to compromise
light offered to a god or Buddha; votive light
flabbily; softly; limply; easily (bend); effortlessly; flexibly
(mountain) pass; highest point on a mountain road; ridge; peak (e.g. of summer); worst (e.g. of an illness); crisis
to attack; to assault; to assail
exceeding the speed limit; speeding
not wearing a helmet (on a motorcycle, etc.)
police officer; policeman; constable
misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune
end; tip; extremities; terminal
child; boy; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
chat; desultory conversation
to advise strongly; to insist (on something)
standard; set; routine; decided
scarecrow; figurehead; dummy
chaos; turmoil; pandemonium; havoc
trembling (with fear, cold, etc.); shaking; chattering (of teeth); coming loose; wobbling
(the art of) storytelling
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
smooth; undisturbed; uninterrupted; harmonious
for some reason or other; somehow; whatsitsname; what-you-call-it; and so on; and you know the rest
to feel a chill run down one's spine
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with
screening (a movie); showing; to screen a movie
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
work; workmanship; craftsmanship; artifice; trick; device
mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for
to explain away; to talk one's way out of; to excuse oneself; to evade