request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence
often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly
other than; excluding; without
careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully
ought to do; have to do; must do; feel obliged to
to command; to dominate; to prevent; to obstruct; to grip; to hold
to put someone to work; to make someone work
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
draft; rough copy; highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
small house; thatched hut
look!; see!; here!; there!; hey!
extinguishing a fire; (Edo-period) fireman
fraud; cheating; foul play; trickery; hoax; swindle
hitting the target; striking home; proving to be right; coming true; being on the mark
art; technique; means; way; stratagem; artifice
(nearly certain) death; extremely dangerous place (or situation) from which one might not return alive; proper place to die; dilemma; predicament
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
to earn the nickname (of); to be dubbed
to knead; to mix with fingers; to quibble; to argue for argument's sake
advice (to a superior); counsel; proposal; suggestion; recommendation
private talk; confidential talk; secret talk
discussion; deliberation; thought; opinion
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; (putting into) practice; execution (of a program); run
starting work (on); setting to work (on); commencing (a crime); playing (a move)
stratagem; artifice; trick; ruse; scheme; tactics
to pen; to write; to draw
possession; having (on one's person); carrying (with one)
aim (of a gun, bow, etc.); aim; object; objective
attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation); affinity; gravitational pull; attractiveness; magnetism
to call; to summon; to send for; to call together
to outwit; to get the better of; to leave (an opponent) dumbfounded; (lit.) to expose (someone's) nose
clouds and smoke; haze; landscape (painting)
up to now; so far; traditional; conventional; usual
falsehood; fabrication; dissimulation
to fill; to become full (of); to wax (of the moon); to rise (of the tide); to flow; to expire (of a period of time)
cease-fire; truce; armistice
form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence
really; truly; very; extremely; exceedingly; sincerely