various articles; various items; various kinds
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
absence; disregard; indifference
(one's) younger brother; foolish younger brother
good-for-nothing; spineless; gutless; spiritless; feckless; pluckless
to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
parched; dried-up; empty; hollow; rattling; clattering
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
representation; representative; exemplification; typification; leader; switchboard number
shopping; purchased goods
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
restlessly; nervously; uneasily; in a fidget
standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert; quarantine
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
to look at; to gaze; to stare at
trade; buying and selling; trafficking (e.g. of humans, arms, drugs); dealing
important; essential; significant; major; key; principal
to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
back; rear; background; behind the scenes
one (thin, flat object); one sheet
lower back; waist; hips; body (of hair, noodles, paper, etc.); resilience; spring
obi (kimono sash); obi (strip of paper looped around a book, CD, etc. containing information about the product); band; belt; cingulum; radio or television program broadcast in the same time slot on all or most days
to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around
the teens (10-19); teenage; the tenth generation
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
young person; youngster; young people; (the) youth
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
to look around; to survey
sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; with a bob of the head
to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
yellow; high-pitched (voice); shrill
bright red; deep red; flushed (of face); downright (e.g. lie); complete; utter