fiction; fabrication; concoction; fictitious; fictional; imaginary
script; libretto; scenario
actor; actress; man of wits; clever person; cunning fellow
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
presence (impressive quality)
place; situation; position; location
from here; from this place
imagination; supposition; virtual; potential (enemy)
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment
3 Japanese feet; waistband; belt; cloth girdle
a little over; a little more than; powerhouse; one of the biggest; upper (seismic intensity)
shaku (unit of distance approximately equal to 30.3 cm); rule; measure; length
little less than; slightly fewer than; just under; weakness; the weak
thereabouts; vicinity; that area; that situation; those circumstances
stagnation; deposit; sediment; faltering; hesitation; pause
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
and; thereupon; because of that
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
rear left; back left; left and behind
to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path
back; reverse; rear side; height; stature; ridge (of a mountain)
to push; to press; to apply pressure from above; to press down; to stamp (i.e. a passport); to apply a seal; to affix (e.g. gold leaf)
falling on one's backside (behind, bottom); pratfall; mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside
to hull (rice, barley, etc.); to pound (rice); to polish (rice); to stamp (ore)
with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names
bodily; with all one's weight; with one's whole body
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning
to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit-in (in protest)
instant; moment; for an instant
concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial
deplorable; regrettable; disappointing; vexing; unfortunate
occasionally; once in a while; now and then; rarely; seldom
to doubt; to distrust; to be suspicious of; to suspect
sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar; rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment
having had enough (of); fed up (with); sick and tired (of); to learn one's lesson; to learn from a bad experience
to wield; to brandish; to display (one's knowledge); to show off; to abuse (one's power); to manipulate someone
to rise high (of water); to overflow; to swell; to be filled with (emotion, energy, etc.); to be bursting with; to be brimming with
to carry off; to run away with; to sweep away; to take entirely for oneself; to monopolize
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
offence; offense; hindrance