invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion
to find out; to discover; to select; to pick out; to look out (from the inside); to be wide-eyed (in surprise, anger, etc.)
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
to fill (with); to be filled with; to express (an emotion); to project (sadness, joy, etc.); to wear (e.g. a smile)
entering a faith; joining a religion
to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
religious organization; religious organisation
to be prolonged; to drag on; to take a long time; to persist; to linger
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
occurrence; incidence; generation (of power, heat, etc.); production; ontogeny; development
guess; conjecture; surmise
censorship; inspection; examination
to hit (e.g. with a car); to knock down; to reject; to eliminate; to refuse (e.g. a request); to deny; to flip
dizzily; giddily; spinning; boiling up
to reach out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to get involved in; to embark on; to start a fight; to get physical with
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
delusion; wild idea; (wild) fancy; (ridiculous) fantasy
still (continuing); as ever; further
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
national debt; national securities; government bonds; government securities
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (of China; 9-23 CE)
to buy; to purchase; to value (highly); to think highly of; to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.); to elicit (e.g. sneers)
the end of the world; the world is beyond saving; there's no hope for the future; this degenerate age; what is this world coming to
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown
to set out; to set sail; to embark on (a new venture); to set out (to achieve something); to begin to ride; to lean forward
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?
call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
voice; speech; phone (as opposed to a phoneme); speech sound; audio; sound (as opposed to the picture)
to drain; to pour; to float (e.g. logs down a river); to set adrift; to wash away; to carry away; to broadcast
to hunt out; to flush out; to round up; to impress; to recruit
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.)