natural posture (esp. in judo); natural stance; natural attitude; relaxed manner; calm manner
near; close; beside; attendant; retainer; vassal
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
slowly; inefficiently; tardily; dawdling
final day of a performance; closing date; final show; final day of a tournament
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
side (of the torso); flank; illegitimate child; child born by someone other than one's wife
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
climbing a slope (hill); ascending a hill
precipice; cliff; flat head
to suck up; to absorb; to squeeze (money)
gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; wide open; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); gobbling up
brilliance; polish; lustre; luster; glossy finish
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
fear of heights; acrophobia
that is not supposed to ...; that ought not to ...; that should never ...; that cannot possibly ...
dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement; in a daze
no need to guess; certainly
going ahead; going first; preceding; coming before; scoring first; getting off to a lead
to freeze (from fear); to be unable to (too frightened to) run
artificial object; man-made object; artifact; artefact
to gouge out; to excavate; to hollow; to bore; to drill; to carve (e.g. pumpkin)
tunnel; (mining) gallery; level; shaft; pit
to remake; to remold; to remould; to convert; to reconstruct; to adapt
often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently
mysterious disappearance; being spirited away
to be scattered; to straggle; to be found here and there
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
fiction; fabrication; concoction; falsework (scaffolding, etc.)
(measuring) scale; rule; scale; scope; (musical) scale; weighing scale
to explain adequately; to be accountable
two characters; two letters; (arch.) garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); (arch.) Chinese chives
unrelated; unconnected; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
insufficient; not enough; lacking; dim-witted; slow; stupid
exclusion; removal; elimination; clearing away; getting rid of
at regular intervals; evenly spaced