to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
with a friendly grin; smilingly
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
to form; to make; to build up (e.g. a fortune); to create; to accomplish; to achieve; to change (into)
studying very hard; studying like mad
unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen
business; things to do; engagement; errand; affairs
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
reaction; response; physical reaction (to a stimulus); observable response (of an organism); reaction; effect
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
to mourn; to lament; to be sorry; to regret; to repent
to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain
indication; sign; hint; tone (of the market)
to peep (through); to peek; to await (one's chance); to guess; to infer
bad(-tasting); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
appearance; emergence; advent; arrival; showing up; coming to existence
omen; sign; notice; indication
marked; pronounced; showing a strong tendency (towards)
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
no matter how much time passes; no matter how long you wait; (taking) forever
observation; survey; measurement; opinion; prediction; thinking
to slip through (a crowd); to weave through (e.g. traffic); to pass through; to get around; to elude (e.g. the law); to evade
neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity
all over; everywhere; in every nook and cranny; brightly; clearly
search; lookup; hunt; (item of) research; exploration; investigation
working overtime; detention; being kept in (e.g. after school)
to start to say; to attempt to say; to be about to say; to speak to; to address
throat; singing voice; gutter (inner margins of a book)
to freeze (to something); to be frozen (to); to freeze hard; to freeze completely
even though; despite; when
to draw near; to draw closer; to press (e.g. for an answer); to hound
to be silent; to say nothing
to be possible to say; to be able to say; (arch.) said; (arch.) have said