to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention
malicious; deliberately mean
auxiliary; supplementary; subsidiary; ancillary
seeming; pose; show; pretense; sham; mock
counter for choices, options, etc.
what time; (lit.) which hour
otherwise; or else; if not
interpretation; explanation; reading; construction
headquarters; head office; main office
outsider; someone outside of a group
feel (of a material); texture
to carve; to engrave; to sculpt; to tattoo
to stir up; to poke (the fire); to beat (an egg); to arouse (interest, feelings, etc.); to stir; to stoke
unhappy; sad; miserable; wretched; gloomy; melancholic
presumptuous; impertinent; impudent; ridiculous; laughable; absurd
wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising
self-destruction; ruining oneself; natural decay; perishing naturally
model; (good) example; exemplar; paragon
kitchen door; back door; service door; host's entrance to a tea-ceremony room
side entrance; tradesman's entrance; service entrance; staff entrance
piling up high (food in a bowl); filling (a bowl); heaped bowl
bias; eccentricity; obstinacy
caller; visitor; company; guest
grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts
falling over; toppling sideways
to get damp; to get moist; to get soggy; to become humid
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
neat (neatly); tidy; trim
clothes for doing farm work or working in fields
commonplace (of people or animals); ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; found around every corner
janitor; caretaker; custodian
old man; venerable gentleman; venerable; old; father
how (beautiful, tasty, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
poor; unsatisfactory; inadequate; cold; chilly