highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
fruit; nut; berry; fruits; profit
to air; to dry; to drain (off); to drink up; to deprive of a role, job, etc.
cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
(piece of) writing; document; (act of) writing
column (of data); column (used in distillation, column chromatography, etc.)
Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)
immorality; iniquity; impropriety
purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge
isonicotinic acid hydrazide; INAH
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
to jump out; to rush out; to appear (suddenly); to protrude; to project; to butt in
local specialty; special product (of a region)
freely; generously; liberally; ungrudgingly; unsparingly
that day; the very same day
bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water
polite; respectful; reverent
to carry; to transport; to come; to go; to wield (a tool, etc.); to use
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information
to pull one's hair back into a bun
beautiful face; good looks; beauty
to make even; to make smooth; to make level; to average
... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...
cruel; inhumane; callous; brutal
writing brush; paintbrush; writing with a brush; drawing with a brush; writing (composing text); the written word
suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly
daytime; during the day; time from sunrise until sunset; diurnal period
bulky; massive; thick; heavy