performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money
farce; charade; person who serves tea; short and humorous improvised sketch (originating from Edo-era kabuki)
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech
to go beyond the limit; to pass the limit
thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan
total; complete; all-out; general; extensive; full-scale
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
one's student (esp. a former one); one's pupil; one's disciple
(a) touch of; tinge of; wreath (e.g. of smoke); one stroke; one brush
envious; jealous; enviable (position, etc.)
to cherish; to treasure; to prize; to take good care of; to look after
taking part on the spur of the moment; participating without registering beforehand; last-minute entrant; specking on flower petals
not funny; not a laughing matter; not a joke
successfully; with success
(sense of) taste; counter for food, drink, medicine, etc.
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
one's self-possession; one's presence of mind
to be possessed by an evil spirit; to be tempted; to give in to an urge; to succumb to temptation
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment
to become settled; to be fixed
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
beyond this point; from now on; after this
proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
infinity; infinitude; eternity; infinite; limitless
back lane; byway; back street; unfair means; dishonest means
reeking of blood; stinking of blood; bloody (battle, crime, etc.)
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
going backward; turning back; backtracking; retrogression; relapse; returning to a bad state
finally; after; following; at the end (of)
at once; immediately; right now
to subsist; to keep on living
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
role; assignment; position (of responsibility); post; part (in a play, film, etc.); role
convenient; handy; useful
tool; implement; means; furniture
unnecessary; not needed; not necessary