resignation; giving up the game for lost
reforming; reuniting; getting back together (of a band, etc.)
thuddingly; plumping down (like a heavy weight)
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
dispute; conflict; trouble; unrest; strife
yielding; submission; surrender; giving way; succumbing
coward; gutless person; sissy; weakling; loser; milquetoast
old-timer; veteran; senior; old stump; old roots
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
artifice; wiles; trickery; art of a courtesan (esp. for seducing or deceiving customers); coquetry
exclusion; removal; elimination; clearing away; getting rid of
calamity; disaster; misfortune
to project; to reflect; to cast (shadow)
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
tatami mat; Japanese straw floor coverings
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
wind-swept; exposed to the wind
striking on the side; side blow; slanting (rain, snow, etc.); driving
flag; banner (administrative division of Inner Mongolia)
cheerfully; joyously; joyfully; happily; lightheartedly; excitedly
to add to one's circle of friends (or colleagues, etc.); to take in; to accept
directions; instructions; orders; command
electric water boiler; thermo pot; hot water dispenser
pot (esp. teapot, coffee pot); vacuum bottle; thermos flask
to be irritated; to get annoyed; to lose one's patience
winning over; placation; gentle persuasion
to do someone in; to bump someone off
extreme masochist; very masochistic
with a slamming noise (e.g. door, telephone receiver); with a banging noise; with a clash; with a clank; with a bang
secret trick; hidden method; trick of the trade; cheat (in a video game)
underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret
to lose one's cool; to blow one's top; to flip one's lid; to get angry
to lose hope; to be plunged into darkness
to be strangled; to be constricted