to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed
indescribable; having no way to express
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive
cannibalism (in animals); feeding on each other; mutually harmful competition; internecine struggle; dog-eat-dog competition
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
simmered with; cooked with; boiling; boiled dish
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
indicates means of action; cause of effect; by
dull (e.g. a knife); blunt; thickheaded; obtuse; dull (sound, color, etc.); dim (light)
mischief; prank; pastime; hobby; playing with (a lighter, etc.); fooling around with
lady attendant; lady's maid; waiting maid
to take (someone) to one place after another (forcibly); to drag (someone) around
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself
growth; breeding; growing up (in, as); upbringing
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
travelling alone; solitary journey
grand; heroic; sublime; fierce
tranquillity and peace; tranquility and peace; peaceful and uneventful
at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else
crash; smash; bang; sound of a large, heavy object falling
very young; little; childish; immature
please; somehow or other; one way or another
one end; an end; part; fragment
cannot help (feeling); cannot hold back (tears, laughter, etc.)
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
to gouge; to hollow out; to greatly perturb; to cause emotional pain; to get to the bottom of things; to relentlessly bring the truth to light
link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
infant; baby; little child
to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride
low-level; trivial; coarse; low-dimension
vindication of honour; vindication of honor; making up for loss; revenge