simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
face; visage; look; (facial) expression; honor (honour); face; influence
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
feeling; sense; impression
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
to float; to set afloat; to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.); to recall; to call to mind
-ness; indicates assertion; come (on); come now; er; um; indicates scrutiny, critique or mistrust
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
to get angry; to get mad; to lose one's temper; to scold; to tell (someone) off
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
evil; wickedness; (role of) the villain (in theatre, etc.); the bad guy
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
habit (usu. a bad one); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing
in succession; one by one
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
to float; to be suspended; to rise to the surface; to appear; to come to mind; to have inspiration
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
absolutely; definitely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
to go to meet (someone); to go to pick up
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result