blister (on the skin) / bloat / bubble (e.g. financial)

blister

to feign ignorance, to play dumb, to pretend to not know or understand something

(onomatopoeia) to gulp

the famous of the “one hundred poems by one hundred poets” anthologies, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika in c. 1235, used in the basis of certain card games

You should treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

dotting the i's and crossing the t's

successive series of questions and responses

China / to give something, to do something for someone