showy; loud; gay; flashy; gaudy
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
by all means; at all costs; absolutely
talk; story; conversation
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
intelligence operative; spy
secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings
knowledge; awareness; consent; acceptance; forgiving; pardoning
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
efficiently; skillfully; adeptly; adroitly; deftly
arrest; apprehension; capture
curious onlookers; rubbernecks
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
blockade; lockdown; sealing off (an area); freezing (funds)
service; duty; business; Buddhist religious services
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
(medical) treatment; care; therapy; cure; remedy
to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal
practice; practising; experience
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
no matter what anyone says; regardless of what is said
cased; boxed; precious; cherished; girl who has been sheltered from the world; one's special talent
(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman
to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
to wipe; to mop up; to get rid of (an impression, feeling, blemish, etc.); to dispel (e.g. shame); to erase
without leaving any trace
weakly; helplessly; weak; flimsy; easy to bend
to fall on one's backside
miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
to nod in agreement; to nod in assent
to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward