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1 not to delay making a decision when a decision is needed

1 to make a decision when it's time to decide

1 intermittent

2 off and on

3 discontinuous

4 stop-go

5 stammering

6 disjointed

7 inarticulate

1 king cobra or ghost chili (Naga jolokia)

1 partition board

1 to get blackout drunk (slang)

1 Brokeback Mountain, 2005 English-language film by Ang Lee 李安[Lǐ Ān]

1 to take one's life

1 lit. cut sleeve (idiom); fig. euphemism for homosexuality, originating from History of Western Han 漢書|汉书: emperor Han Aidi (real name Liu Xin) was in bed with his lover Dong Xian, and had to attend a court audience that morning. Not wishing to awaken Dong Xian, who was sleeping with his head resting on the emperor's long robe sleeve, Aidi used a knife to cut off the lower half of his sleeve.

1 arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army

1 circuit breaker

1 ability to judge

2 judgment

1 wise and resolute

1 a steady flow (idiom); an unending stream

1 horizontal section

1 designed to be torn off along a line of perforations

1 anti-trust legislation

2 anti-monopoly

1 transverse object

1 predicate

1 guillotine

2 scaffold