clumsy; awkward; unskillful; incompetent; inept; bungling
to peel; to skin; to pare; to bare (teeth, fangs); to open wide (eyes)
notches; serration; indentation; notched; serrated; jagged
previous day; day before; eve; prior day; preceding day
to come face to face (with)
to doubt; to think (something is) doubtful; to wonder; to be suspicious
every month; each month; monthly
the whole school; all the schools
to feel uncomfortable; to be offended; to have a bad time
unfairness; injustice; partiality
equality; impartiality; evenness
to be lost in deep thought; to be deeply immersed in thought
habit (usu. a bad one); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking
good morning, good day and good evening; hello
dead language; extinct language; obsolete word; dated word; word that has become passé
digital versatile disc; DVD
samadhi (state of intense concentration achieved through meditation); being immersed in; being absorbed in; prone to; apt to
freak (dancing, film, speed, etc.); enthusiast; deformed person, animal. etc.; freak; monster
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
something; something or other; something something
Western painting; Western film; Western movie
(preparatory) meeting; briefing session; overlap (of a coat, etc.); (arch.) making something match exactly
author; writer; novelist; artist
shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; social withdrawal; shunning other people
inarticulate; clumsy with words; poor at speaking
for some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance
smooth (i.e. without problems)
common language; lingua franca
totally (immersed in something, e.g. liquid, work); addicted
arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)
equally (well); as ... as; no less ... than ...; evenly matched; well-matched
two times; twice; two degrees
the current ...; this; today's ...
work (e.g. of art); piece; harvest; crop; technique
certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention