silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
worry; care; concern; ennui; boredom
trouble; difficulty; failure (of an engine, machine, computer, etc.); breakdown; (medical) condition; disorder
to prevent (something) from occurring; to forestall; to avert; to nip in the bud
tediously (explain, complain, etc.); repeatedly; persistently; insistently; ad nauseam; at great length
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
slight; light; thin; faint; dim
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
to talk to oneself; to mutter
voice; speech; phone (as opposed to a phoneme); speech sound; audio; sound (as opposed to the picture)
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); shouting repeatedly; pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
white clothes; white robe; white gown (worn by doctors, chemists, etc.); commoner without rank (in ancient China); layperson
eager; earnest; strenuous; fervent; assiduous; with utmost effort
supposing; even if; granting that; temporarily; provisionally; for the time being
to shift; to move; to slide; to move (an appointment, meeting, etc.); to bring forward; to put back
to do someone in; to bump someone off
No Longer Human (1948 novel by Osamu Dazai)
without permission; without notice
politeness; good manners; courtesy; (wine) label
violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement
two sheets (of paper or other flat objects)
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
bipedal walking; walking on two legs
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
breach of manners; breach of etiquette; faux pas
manners; etiquette; polite behaviour
contradiction; inconsistency
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)
in spite of; despite; although; nonetheless; nevertheless; but
person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager
something; some kind of; for some reason
how; in what way; how (much); to what extent; however (much); no matter how
bloodshed; bloody event; bloody violence
(acupuncture) needle; acupuncture
nerve; nerves; sensitivity
to torment; to punish; to treat harshly; to beat up; to give a drubbing; to cause damage to
dangerous weapon; lethal weapon; deadly weapon; murder weapon
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
private talk; confidential talk; secret talk