skilled; skillful; skilful; competent; capable; good
though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless
encounter; running into; meeting with (e.g. an accident); being confronted with (e.g. a difficulty)
purpose; utility; objective; way to use something
industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
fat; thick; deep (of a voice); thick; daring; shameless
to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)
deep inside; innermost place
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
to work on (someone); to appeal to; to make approaches to; to begin to work
devil; evil spirit; genie
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
strong interaction; strong force
rumbling (of thunder, one's stomach, etc.); grumbling; rolling (of something large and heavy); tumbling; all over the place; everywhere; idly
to warm up to; to get interested in; to get excited by
talkativeness; garrulity; loquacity
possible; potential; practicable; feasible
biggest; greatest; largest; maximum
to take pains; to take time for someone; to do work for someone; to go to trouble for someone
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
to appear on the market; to be in season (e.g. of fruit); to circulate widely; to make the rounds; to go around
most difficult; next to impossible
et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
eye; insight; vision; gist; main point; hole
occasionally; once in a while; now and then
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
to be born; to come into the world
eyesight; vision; visual acuity
elaborate; delicate; exquisite
to match; to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with