performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
experienced; veteran; skilled; expert
dignity; grace; nobility; grade; quality; fineness
this family; our family; this house; we
to praise; to commend; to compliment; to speak well of; to speak highly of
expressly; especially; specially; intentionally; deliberately; on purpose
to go out to meet; to receive; to call for; to summon; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
to rise perpendicularly; to tower steeply
returning home; going home; coming home; getting home
blunder; bungle; gaffe; bungling; stupid; tactless
nail; spike; tack; rivet; brad; (pachinko) pin
to drive in (a nail, stake, etc.); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into; to shoot into; to input (data)
sick person; patient; invalid
nervous; highly strung; sensitive; fussy; worried about petty things
mimicking someone's speech; imitating someone's way of speaking; mimicry
excursion; outing; picnic
down to earth; reasonable; able to deal with
nod deeply; glugging; drinking deeply
unnatural; artificial; false; forced (e.g. smile); empty (e.g. compliments)
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
beforehand; in advance; ahead of time; previously
the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability; as hard as possible
I'm home!; I'm back!; now; at present; just now; a moment ago
accomplice; co-conspirator
ending; quitting; closing; ending before one had time to do something one wanted or intended to
research; study; investigation
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
wild enthusiasm; being crazy about
one color; one kind; one tendency; being the sole mood, sentiment, focus of attention, etc.
to become thin; to fade; to grow pale
to let out; to utter; to issue; to send; to leave; to depart
deadly serious; deadly earnest
to puzzle; to perplex; to bewilder; to delude; to mislead; to fascinate
to (keep in) mind; to give heed to; to pay attention to
to pick up; to adopt (a proposal); to take up (a topic); to take issue with; to make a problem of; to report (news); to cover
unexpected; unlikely; terrible; awful; very; extremely