half- (sibling by a different mother); paternal
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
distance; journey; itinerary; path (e.g. to one's goal); way; process
tranquil; calm; quiet; mild (weather); balmy
agricultural community; farm village; rural
intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; in drops (e.g. of rain)
fields (of rice and other crops)
self-supply; self-sufficiency; producing for oneself; providing for oneself
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
quail; Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)
first thing in the morning
to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear
to make one's rounds; to patrol
large stone; boulder; dragon; long group of connected stones spanning a wide area
Japanese ash; Manchurian ash
to catch (a wild animal, fish, insect, baseball, etc.); to capture
one arm; one's right-hand man; one's right hand
to listen repeatedly; to listen again; to ask a question in return; to ask again; to ask for a repeated explanation
desperate; frantic; excited; worked up; heated; eager
sunflower (Helianthus annuus)
to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)
to correct oneself; to restate
sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca); Egyptian cucumber; loofah (bath sponge); loofa; worthless thing; insignificant thing
wig; hairpiece (esp. to cover hair loss); toupee
popular person; favorite; favourite
underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
pretty girl who attracts customers to come inside a shop
long and narrow; lanky; gangling; spindly
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
back country; remote countryside
unseasonable; out-of-season
deserted (esp. store, market, town, streets); quiet; inactive (business, trade, etc.); slack; idle; free
to undertake; to take on (task); to assure; to guarantee; to vouch (for)
pursuing as a side business; doing in addition to one's main work; running (businesses) simultaneously; side business; job on the side
dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
enormous; gargantuan; immense; ridiculously large
patch; patching; join; joining; successor; heir