to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter
opposite side; bottom; rear; back; lining; inside; in the shadows
please (give me); please (do for me)
(social) position; status; standing; position (in a company, organization, etc.); post; rank
to take (seat, position, course, office, etc.); to assume; to ascend (the throne); to accede; to start (on a journey); to commence
(deliberate) misinterpretation; distortion (of someone's words, etc.); contortion; perversion; disingenuous understanding
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
number one; first; best; most; game; round
popular theory; widely-accepted theory
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
absolutely; definitely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
to be possible; to be conceivable; to be likely; to be probable
to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed; to get close (e.g. to someone emotionally); to become intimate (with)
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
young bird; chick; fledgling; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
to beat by a wide margin (in a race); to tear (off) roughly
lovey-dovey; head-over-heels in love
-ness; indicates assertion; come (on); come now; er; um; indicates scrutiny, critique or mistrust
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
hostility; antagonism; opposition
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
complex; complicated; intricate; mixed (feelings)
state of mind; mental state; mental attitude
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); precisely because ...; all the more because of ...; on account of ...; ... being what it is
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state