trial manufacture; experiment; test piece; prototype
to start work (on); to undertake; to start committing a crime; embarkation; launch
lovely; wonderful; nice; great; fantastic; superb
right or wrong; good or bad; quality; having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages
chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
to be crushed; to be squashed (flat); to be discouraged
matter of time; question of time
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again
outside of one's area of expertise
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
exterior; packaging; cladding; armor (armour); arm
to swindle out of; to cheat out of; to defraud of; to misrepresent oneself as; to pretend to be; to assume (a name or title)
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
carrion; decaying flesh; tainted meat
work-in-progress; working state
cartoon-character costume
ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)
retreat; falling back; recession; waning; backspace (key)
front; frontage; facade; main
to punch; to hit and hit; to stamp out; to pierce; to bore into; to knock down walls
tear; rip; rent; slit; crack; chasm
transformation; variation; metamorphosis; modification; deformation; variety
to slide into; to slip into
proper; respectable; decent; honest
to wrench open; to prize open; to pick (lock)
concentrated fire; intense criticism
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
to take aim (at); to set one's sights (on); to zero in (on)
all that one has; all that there is; the whole
fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
detour; circumvention; turning movement