urgent; pressing; immediate; urgently; promptly; at once
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
stranger; person from abroad
undergoing treatment (medical); receiving treatment
because of; on account of; regarding; per; apiece
No Entry; No Trespassing; No Admittance; off-limits; restricted; forbidden
partly open; in half bloom
poor physical health; bad shape
boarder; boarding student
to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse
cache; place to hide something
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
good performance; good work; great success
one night; one evening; all night; overnight
to stare back (at); to glare back
physician's license (licence); doctor's license; medical license; license to practice medicine
spurious article; forgery; counterfeit; imitation; sham
community; circles; kingdom; erathem; field (electrical); border
largest company; industry leader
sphere of action; scope of activity; range of work
enterprise; business; company; corporation
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
history; pedigree; lineage
rank; place (e.g. first place); decimal place; counter for ghosts
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
bureaucratic routine; red tape
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically
joining (an association, agreement, etc.); participation; affiliation; accession
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty); (tactic of) making and breaking alliances (to benefit oneself as the occasion demands); resorting to alliances as a diplomatic expedient
municipality; local government; self-governing body; autonomous body
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
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence