thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
coat; tunic; jacket; outer garment
incidentally; taking the opportunity; while (you) are at it; on the occasion
shallow clogs (worn by nobles; originally made of leather, later made of black lacquered paulownia)
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
decoration; ornament; trimmings
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
socks; sock; stockings; stocking
shoe; shoes; boots; footwear; footgear
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to use abusive language; to curse; to call someone names
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
advance; moving forward; progress
helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging
mausoleum; shrine; the (imperial) court
a kind; a sort; of sorts; something of a; sort of; somewhat
Chinese banyan (Ficus microcarpa); Malayan banyan; Indian laurel
seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time; two-timing; bifurcation; fork; fence-sitting; playing it both ways
(tree) trunk; (arrow) shaft; (tool) handle; backbone; base
middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart
footprints; record of page visitors (e.g. in social networking sites)
among these; between these; of these; in here; in this
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
to loiter; to putter; to prowl; to be confused from not knowing what to do
interior; inside; internal
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
laws of nature; physical laws; physics
excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling
to encourage; to cheer; to raise (the voice)
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
tragic but brave; heroic; grim; pathetic
pitch dark; total darkness
(playground) slide; (ship) launching platform; sliding bed
to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
elementary school student; primary school student; grade school student