grounding (in a skill or subject); knowledge; training; achievements; attainments; accomplishments
polish; burnishing; improvement; becoming more skilled
to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)
pair; couple; antithesis; counter for items that come in pairs; counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)
to get (information) out of someone; to extract (information) from someone; to find out (through questioning); to begin listening (to)
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
chase; pursuit; tracking; following up; tracing
madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
otherwise; or else; if not
downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction
to change (into); to turn (into); to transform (into); to influence
reimportation; reimport; reverse import; (cultural, etc.) reverse import (e.g. California rolls being introduced in Japan)
pseudo; quasi; artificial; simulated
to distribute; to hand out
to that extent; accordingly; that being the case; that state; that condition
hundredfold; hundred times as much; much more (than previously)
projection; protrusion; rupture (e.g. of gas); jetting out; prominence; standing out
loose; slack; gentle (slope, curve); slow (speed); lenient; liberal
end of war; cessation of hostilities
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
to replace; to convert; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute (person, staff member, player, etc.)
Ark of the Covenant (Judaism); tabernacle (Catholicism)
... is the reason; ... is my excuse
wild beast; wild animal; brute
(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat
to see through; to see into (someone's heart, mind, etc.); to perceive; to find out; to detect
anyhow; at all events; in any case; either way; anyway
birth (of a person); nativity; creation; formation; one's first birthday
insatiable; untiring; persistent
thirst for knowledge; intellectual thirst
practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis
in its entirety; whole; wholly
good; goodness; right; virtue
self-sacrifice; self-renunciation
disappointed love; broken heart; unrequited love; being lovelorn
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say everything; to tell all