Vocabulary

to grasp at straws; to resort to desperate measures

risk ratio; percentage of risk; hazard rate

pesticide; repellent; eliminator; eradicator; -cide

to have something on someone; to catch someone out; to trip someone up; to find someone's fault; to get evidence on someone; to get a lead on someone

to act; to take action

prepaid highway toll card

Cheondoism; Chondoism; Korean religion

alright to do; can do; do not mind doing; gladly do; might as well do

hiking trail

dance partner; partner

without eating or drinking

villainous; warped

long distance relationship

to drool; to salivate

to saw off

sawing

Eurasian continent; Eurasia

to clamber; to climb with hands and feet; to crawl up; to creep up

confident; full of confidence; cocky; full of oneself

leave it to me

even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries; even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots

just law

even the unskilled can succeed by a fluke given enough tries; even a poor marksman will hit the target with enough shots

to be purplish; to be tinged purple

to be greenish; to be tinged green

once bitten twice shy; to become over cautious from a bad experience; to be bitten by a snake and thus fear a rotten rope (which resembles a snake)

undressing and dressing; taking off and putting on (clothes)

Polaroid camera; instant camera

Prakrit (language)

please do (something)

manuscript

Chollima; winged horse of East Asian mythologies

demarcation; graduation

sweeping sideways; mowing down

bodily; with all one's weight; with one's whole body

hammering

quickly

specific radioactivity

photolysis; photodecomposition; photodissociation

belief that where there's a will, there's a way