deciding first; settling (a matter) first; first priority
to get complicated; to grow worse; to turn sour
healthy; sound; wholesome
to walk about; to walk around; to conduct oneself; to act; to stop by (somewhere; esp. of a criminal on the run); to drop by
usurpation; taking back; dispossession
huge win; overwhelming victory
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
to contract (to do); to undertake; to take on (work); (arch.) to take responsibility for; (arch.) to be liable for
running as fast as one can
pulsation; pulsatory motion
language learning ability; foreign language skills; linguistic ability
to read and understand; to interpret (e.g. a difficult text); to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
to read aloud; to read to someone
to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce
to fight; to cross swords; to engage in battle; (lit.) to cross spears
right of or to independence
4th day of the month; four days
great inconvenience; great deal of trouble; big nuisance; royal pain in the behind
distant land; remote location; distant province
pose; pose; posturing; pause; rest
location (of); position; whereabouts; place where one is
setting the table; laying the table; setting up; getting one's ducks in a row; running interference
foil; (gold, etc.) leaf; prestige
to balance the accounts; to make consistent; to make coherent
to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade
Japanese style; Nihon-shiki romanization (of Japanese)
(in the same way) as before; as always
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
to eat oneself out of house and home; to eat up completely
unenlightened; uneducated; ignorant
to introduce oneself; to announce oneself (e.g. as the person sought); to come forward (e.g. as a witness, with a claim, etc.)
adviser; advisor; counsellor; counselor
misfortune; bad luck; ill luck; ill fortune
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
being a good listener; good listener
looking good; sounding good; (of) good appearance
wound (suffered in a fight)
red; red color; communist; socialist; left-wing