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sad, gloomy, discontent
funds, payment; item, article
pleading interjection
to cheat, to double-cross, to deceive
to respect, to admire; royal
sudden, abrupt
to injure, to ruin, to spoil; cruel, oppressive, savage; disabled, incomplete
utmost, entirely, quite; to use up
to put to death; to imprison for life
sickness; repeated
to breed, to spawn; to grow, to prosper
casing, husk, shell
cooked meat; confused, mixed up
fine hair or fur on animals
a shuttlecock
long feathers; scraggy
rug, carpet, blanket
nitrogen
chlorine
cyanogen; ethane dinitrile
infinity; flooding; a wide expanse of water
abyss, depth; to surge up, to bubble up
scattered; to scatter
to decrease, to subtract, to diminish
to change; Chongqing
swelling; the Bohai sea
to survey, to measure; to estimate, to conjecture
to cross, to ferry over, to pass through
port, harbor, bay; Hong Kong
blended, mixed; muddy, turbid
thirsty, parched; to yearn, to pine for
vast, boundless
a river in Shanxi province
warm, lukewarm
eddy, swirl, whirlpool
to enrich, to dye; to moisten, to soak
to scatter, to disperse; high tide
to render; to exaggerate, to embellish, to add layers of color
to wander, to travel, to tour, to roam
dregs, sediment; refuse, slag
a river in Guangdong province
to piece together, to assemble
lake; Hubei, Hunan; bluish-green
river in Qinghai province
to wash, to cleanse; to purge
bank, coast, shore
drunk, flushed
turbulent, surging; the sound of waves crashing
an affluent of the Yangtze river
flowing smoothly; calm water
current, rapids
Hunan province; the Xiangjiang river
calm, clear, deep (as of a lake)
marsh, swamp, small pond
confused, mixed; to pity
mud, slime
wet, moist, humid, damp; illness
soup, gravy, broth; hot water
bay, cove, gulf, inlet
to block up; to sink; to stain
to gush, to well up, to bubble up
to water, to irrigate, to flood; to wash
to sprinkle, to spray, to splash, to spill
a flooding river; a military defeat; to break down, to disperse
a river in Hunan
to urinate; to soak, to drench
a district in Anhui province
to slip, to slide; slippery, polished
to block, to obstruct; sluggish, stagnant
to grow, to nourish; to multiply, to thrive
to do, to act; to handle, to govern; to be
to bake, to roast; to dry by the fire