combination; assortment; matching (in a contest); pairing; combination
most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest
to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
hard-boiled (person, style, etc.); tough; hard-boiled fiction
thrust; charge; digging into (a matter); depth; straight man (of a comedy duo); quip; jab
moving about; stirring about
second (unit of time); arc second
nonchalant air; unruffled air
confused; disordered; faltered; incoherent; inconsistent
distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)
certainly; without fail; right and wrong; pros and cons
professor; teaching; instruction
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
form; tense; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
manners; behavior; behaviour
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
to be dyed; to be tainted; to be infected; to be stained
person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute
one thing or another; this and that; something or another
self-consciousness; self-awareness
nonchalantly; without a care
to put on; to wear; to be clad in; to twine around; to twist around; to coil around
to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out
to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up; to dampen
hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
adultery; immorality; impropriety; (an) affair
playing with fire; doing something dangerous; (fig.) playing with fire; playing around (with someone); flirting
to roar; to reverberate; to be well-known; to be famous; to palpitate; to throb