abuse; misuse; perversion
price; cost; value; worth; value
cotton (material); red silk-cotton tree (Bombax ceiba)
to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes
before one knows; unnoticed; unawares
repentance; confession; penitence
one's just deserts; one's just desserts; one's just reward; what one deserves; comeuppance
cross; crossed; cruciform
unpleasant feelings (e.g. hatred, disgust, revulsion, fear)
to bear in mind; to keep remembering; to note
mental; spiritual; emotional
weakness; debility; breakdown; prostration
one copy (of a document); one letter; one-way traffic; pure straight; winning hand containing nine consecutive tiles of the same suit (i.e. 1-9)
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently
irritability; feeling of impatience; sense of uneasiness
evil spirit (that can possess people)
catalog; catalogue; inventory; menu
set meal; special (of the day)
ecdysis; shedding (of skin); sloughing; freeing oneself; breaking with (convention, etc.)
forcing; compulsion; coercion; pushing (to do)
vengeance; revenge; retaliation
reward; recompense; return; punishment; retribution
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
to prepare for death; to get ready to die
mincing; chopping finely; short and repeated (movements) (e.g. trembling, stepping quickly); gradual; bit by bit
to hold a memorial service for the dead, praying for their happiness in the next life by chanting sutras
being unfamiliar with a locality; not knowing one's way around; (lit.) not knowing one's right hand from the left; being clueless
course (of events); development; progress; market order; order without limit
unauthorized; without permission; unapproved; lack of permission; absence of authorization
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
to collect (e.g. one's thoughts); to get in order
bustling; shuffling; squirming; creepy crawly
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
to put up (a notice); to post