making practical; making useful; implementing
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
inherent flavor; inherent flavour; natural taste; distinctive characteristic (of a person, work, etc.); peculiar quality; special ability
to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected
means of survival; means of escape; way out of a difficulty
animal; beastly; carnal; sensual; brute
upper half of the body; upper body
opposite side; opposition
numbness; going to sleep (of a limb); pins and needles
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
coat; tunic; jacket; outer garment
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
metabolism; renewal; regeneration; replacing the old with the new
prank; practical joke; horseplay; mischievous trick
hating to lose; unyielding; unbending; competitive; sore loser; determined
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
enormous; gargantuan; immense; ridiculously large
unasked for; unnecessary; uninvolved
Luan; Rouen (France); Rouyn (Canada)
wasteland; wilderness; abandoned land; devastated land
dandelion (esp. species Taraxacum platycarpum)
aggressiveness; competitive spirit; fighting spirit
to break; to fracture; to fold; to bend; to make (origami); to interrupt
kneeling down on the ground; prostrate oneself
(of a lie, etc.) obvious; transparent
to go through a bitter experience; to get into trouble; to get hurt; to feel pain
sesame seeds; sesame (Sesamum indicum)
to rub; to scrub; to scrape
way to go!; attaboy!; hear, hear!
iron wall; impregnable fortress; impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
bowl; pot; flowerpot; crown; brainpan
ouch!; hot, hot, hot!; something hot; fire