on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
strange; weird; odd; strange thing; strange person
half-cooked; vague; halfhearted; indecisive
agreement (e.g. business, dispute); understanding; compromise; mutual relations (between family members, coworkers, etc.)
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
early summer; fourth month of the lunar calendar
to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear
to avoid misfortune; to escape danger
interior design; interior; upholstery
interruption; suspension; break
to a surprising degree; to a remarkable extent; surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
to sit up straight; to straighten one's posture; to straighten up
to knead; to mix with fingers; to quibble; to argue for argument's sake
selfish; self-centred; egotistical
either way; in any case; one way or another
simply; merely; only; solely
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment
rampancy; prevalence; domination
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
to take care of some business; to go on an errand; to relieve oneself; to do one's business; to go to the toilet
taking a philosophic view; looking at the long term; farsightedness
to bring; to take; to bring about
to remove; to eliminate; to eradicate; to exclude; to except
reliance; trust; faith; confidence
comparatively; relatively; unexpectedly; unusually; considering; for one's ...
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport
withering; shrivelling; shrinking; atrophy; contraction
firm; resolute; absolutely
to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)