practice; practising; training; study
geisha; (arch.) kabuki actor (esp. a young actor); (arch.) someone accomplished in the arts
head; chief; merit; strong point; superiority; major
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
wholly; solely; entirely; principally; mostly; chiefly
busy; having no (free) time
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
notebook; memo pad; certificate; identification card
to write down; to note; to jot down; to remember
request; favor; favour; reliance; dependence; trust
review (of learned material); revision
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable
shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable
servant; manservant; menial
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
two persons; two people; pair; couple
two reams (of paper); 1000 sheets (of paper); stanza; verse; tribe (in taxonomy); forecast (bet); bet which predicts the top 2 finishers (i.e. quinella or perfecta bet)
party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed
hey there; I say; see here
origin; beginning; variable measure of fabric (28.8 cm in width); for kimonos: at least 10 m in length; tip; extremity
near; close; beside; third person
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
speaking of ...; when it comes to ...; as for ...; if one were to say ...
thatched cottage; hovel; my humble cottage
dilapidated house; tumbledown house; my house; my home; small resting place comprising four pillars and a roof (with no walls)
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
thatching a roof (with grass); thatched roof
thicket; bush; grove; (medical) quack
crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
other side; opposite side; other party
traveller; traveler; wayfarer; tourist