feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
moving forward (e.g. vehicle); onward movement; advance (work, procedure, etc.); advancement; progress (of a disease); disease progression
affable; amiable; sociable; agreeable
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour); to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale
to wear (sword, decoration, etc.); to carry; to be entrusted (e.g. with a mission); to take on; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane
to tear off; to pluck off; to take forcibly
fantasy; illusion; vision; dream
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
old friend; familiar face
sharp; harsh; stinging; thorny; snappy
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
serious error; gross mistake
isn't it?; let's ...; why don't we ...; how about we ...
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; strictness; cruelty
brightness; discernment; insight; eyesight; vision; nth year in the Meiji era (1868.9.8-1912.7.30)
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
reservation; putting on hold; deferment
surely; clearly; without a doubt; in all probability; no matter how one slices it; no matter how one looks at it
to carry in one's hand; to carry with one; to have on one's person; to take along (someone); to take (someone) with one; to be accompanied by
drop of water; vessel for replenishing inkstone water
to get tired out; to be exhausted
mark; sign; symbol; emblem; badge; crest
to become locked (e.g. of automatic locking)
valuable article; valuables
complete; whole; perfect; safe
(just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake
goes before a verb to strengthen its meaning or to add emphasis
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
to steal; to plagiarize; to steal (a technique, idea, etc.); to do stealthily; to do during scant time; to steal a base
very improbable; vanishingly unlikely; only with a miracle