ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
originally; essentially; naturally; in the first place; to begin with
limitation; restriction; condition; constraints
a person without a single relative
fork; junction; parting of the ways; turning point
dying by the roadside; dying a dog's death
dying from blood loss; bleeding to death; hemorrhaging to death
to cross one's mind; to be reminded
vomiting and diarrhea (diarrhoea)
metal rod; metal bar; iron rod; iron club; iron staff with rings on top (traditionally used by night watchmen)
certainly; surely; undoubtedly; just; precisely; exactly
to smash down; to beat in
to burrow through; to dig through
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
studying under; looking up to; apprenticing oneself to
not serious; frivolous; insincere; unsteady
enlightenment; spiritual awakening; opening one's eyes to the truth; gaining eyesight; restoring eyesight; opening the eyes
to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble
inferiority (e.g. numerical); inferior position; disadvantage; unfavorable situation; unfavourable situation
each and every one of them; every last one of them; all a bunch of
styptic; stopping of bleeding
what little ... one has; tiny amount of; paltry
millilitre; milliliter; mL
inorganic matter; mineral matter; cold; inhuman; robotic
ruin; destruction; devastation; waste; decay
to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)
showing one's face in public; facing another person
impression of the teeth; tooth mold (mould); tooth mark; teeth marks
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
severe wound; serious wound; gash
conviction based on flawed ideas; obstructive thought
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
whole year; all year round; always; all the time; during an era; middle class (of a nursery school, etc.)