feelings; emotion; compassion; sympathy; passion; affection
to make sure of; to ascertain; to confirm; to grasp
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
to have two things (at the same time) (e.g. good and bad points); to also have something (in addition to something else)
eager; earnest; strenuous; fervent; assiduous; with utmost effort
to work too hard; to try too hard; to strain oneself; to overdo it; to go too far
to split finely; to splinter; to get frayed; to become irritable
ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody
god's majesty; god's authority; might of Heaven
overflowing; effusive; exuberant; bountiful
fall; sinking; surrender; capitulation
beauty; siren; courtesan; prostitute
for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad
to drive mad; to make insane; to cause a malfunction; to put out of order; to derail (a plan, etc.)
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
confrontation; opposition; antagonism
to snatch (and run); to carry off; to swipe; to scoop up (and remove; sand, earth, etc.)
to make something one's own; to appropriate for oneself
to offer; to present; to set someone up in a high position; to revere at a distance; to do respectfully
to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)
freely; impudently; brazenly; shamelessly; however one wishes
sowing seeds; planting seeds; scattering seeds
group with a common interest (e.g. students); club (e.g. company sports club); circle; circle (shape)
to have the personal support of (an influential person); to be under the patronage of
old boy; alumnus; graduate; out of bounds (golf)
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit
spiderweb; spider web; spider's web; cobweb
optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion
successfully; fairly; artfully; nicely; thoroughly
to make a mess of; to sacrifice; to waste
management; (executive) staff; leaders; leadership; top brass; upper echelons
becoming employed by a government office, agency, board, etc.
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
omitting crucial steps; cutting corners; intentional negligence; tenuki; taking the initiative by ignoring the opponent's last move and playing somewhere else (in go)
falsehood; untruth; lie; fallacy (logic)
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
feeling keenly; fully realizing
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
there is no need to ...; never happens; there is never a time when
layer; stratum; class; stratum; sheaf; counter for stories (of a building)