postcard; memo; note; card
anonymity; using an assumed name
to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
Buddhist (household) altar
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
dull (e.g. of movement or reaction); sluggish
true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
to apologize; to apologise
difficult to ...; hard to ...
way out; means to escape; escape route
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
this is why; this means; it is the case that
to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through
threat; menace; coercion; terrorism
to accept somebody's challenge; to take up the gauntlet
both are bad; neither is good; one's as bad as the other; both are to blame; six of one, half a dozen of the other
establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration
confession; acknowledgement; acknowledgment
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to
standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert
small; small-sized; small-scale; miniature
to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.); to escort (e.g. home); to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight; to let pass; to pass up (an opportunity etc.); to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.); to postpone
way one walks; one's walk
when push comes to shove; when needed; when necessity arises; when the moment arrives
to be no match for; to not hold a candle to
show (of power, ability, etc.); exhibition; demonstration; display; manifestation
to turn toward; to look (up, down, etc.); to face (e.g. east) (of a building, window, etc.); to look out on; to point (of an arrow, compass needle, etc.); to be suited to
if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so
finish; finishing; finishing touches
being in charge (of an area of responsibility); being responsible (for a work role, etc.)