HSK 5 — Advanced Chinese Proficiency (page 15)

(v.) control, dominate, regulate, govern, limit

(n.) taste, flavor; (TCM) taste in the mouth

(v.) to praise; to exaggerate

(v./n.) exaggerate, overstate; hyperbole

(n.) accounting, accountant

(adj./n.) wide; well-off; width, breadth | (adj./v.) lenient; to be lenient; to extend; to relieve, to relax

(n.) insect

(v.) to enlarge, to expand, to extend, to broaden

(n.) hot chili, hot pepper, chili

(v.) to hinder, to bar, to block; be directed right at

(adj./adv.) mushy; rotten, decayed; worn-out; messy, disorderly; bright-colored; completely, utterly

(v.) read, read loudly

(v.) physical work, labor | (v.) (informal) to trouble (... to do something)

(sep-v.) Excuse me!

(n.) ordinary people, civilians

(n.) boss

(n.) grandmother on mother's side

(n.) wife (informal)

(adj.) honest and frank; well-behaved, well-disciplined; gullible, simple-minded, naive

(n.) mouse, rat

(adj.) optimistic

(n.) thunder | (char.) mine

(n.) type

(adj./v.) slack, sluggish; cold, indifferent (in manner); to treat coldly

(n.) pear; pear tree

(sep-v.) divorce

(n.) centimeter (cm)

(n./v.) theory; (colloquial) reason; to argue

(n.) reason, ground, cause, excuse

(adv.) immediately

(adv.) at once, immediately

(n.) physical strength or power; ability, force, power; effect, efficacy, potency

(n.) profit

(n.) interest

(n.) benefit, interest, profit

(v.) make use of

(v./n.) unite, associate; association, union, alliance

(adv.) in a hurry, at once, promptly, hurriedly, immediately

(v.) to go on continuously

(v./n.) to love, to be in love; love, love affair