affable; sociable; friendly
exactly; precisely; just; just (like); as if; as though
staff; staff member; stuffing (in Western cuisine); filling; stuff; materials
to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten
farming out (all of a project) to subcontractors; hundred-percent outsourcing; leaving (a responsibility) entirely to someone else; offloading (a problem, work, etc.); wholesale delegation
deletion; elimination; erasure; striking out
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
conceit; hubris; vanity; presumption
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. of a joke)
the heavens; the skies; celestial sphere; heavenly realm; deva realm
to cry and beg for mercy; to apologize in tears
supernatural (e.g. psychic phenomena and such); paranormal
riot; rebellion; (media) uproar; brouhaha; feud; tussle
to lose consciousness; to faint; to black out; (arch.) to lose motivation; (arch.) to get discouraged
to worry about; to be worried about; to fret about; to not know what to do; to be at a loss (as to what to do)
promising without due consideration
to have a meal; to take a meal
modern times; the modern age; this day and age
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
deer (esp. the sika deer, Cervus nippon); cervid
cooking; food preparation
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
demolition; taking down; dissolution (of an organization, company, etc.); breaking up; dissection (of a body); dismemberment
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair
to serve as a reference; to provide useful information; to be helpful; to be informative; to be instructive
to worry (about); to fuss (over); to be careful (about); to pay attention (to); to take (good) care of
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
to spoil; to rot; to corrode
to reseat oneself; to correct one's posture
first generation; founder
seeing for the first time; first sight; first meeting; sight-reading
to fire (a gun) ceaselessly; to fire away; to blaze away; to fire volley after volley
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever
logical connection; chain of reasoning; coherence; blood vessel
solving a riddle; solving a mystery