to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?
tolerable; passable; adequate; so-so
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
to be vague; to speak ambiguously; to be evasive; to not commit oneself
atmospheric pressure; air pressure; atmosphere (unit of pressure)
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
weather; fair weather; fine weather
to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)
turban cooked whole in its own shell
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
hesitation; indecision; vacillation
as it is; plain (truth); bare; undisguised; unvarnished; unexaggerated
to press a question; to cross-examine
friendship; fellowship; camaraderie
unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to cry out in one's sleep (e.g. from having a nightmare); to moan (in anguish) in one's sleep
to trust; to relax one's guard (around)
again; once more; a second time
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
possible; conceivable; likely; probable
to stop (someone) by throwing one's arms around them; to catch (someone) in one's arms; to hold (someone) back
soft; software; soft hat; felt hat; soft serve ice cream; softball
across; over; beyond; throughout (a period of time); for
fast; quick; easy; simple; as soon as ...; the moment ...
alright to do; can do; do not mind doing; gladly do; might as well do
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
goes without saying; needless to say; obvious
important; significant; precious; valuable; careful
economic; financial; economical; thrifty; frugal
environment; surroundings; circumstances
to borrow; to rent; to hire; to make use of (another's help, wisdom, etc.); to obtain; to use (for another purpose)
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
self-control; self-restraint
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for