being put to shame; being outshone; being eclipsed; feeling embarrassed
edition; version; plate; block; counter for editions of a publication
overcast sky in the rainy season
lodging; boarding; room and board; boarding house; residence hall; dormitory
wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)
women who assist bathers at hot-springs resorts; (arch.) bathhouse prostitute
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
good times; boom; (wave of) prosperity
strenuous effort; hard struggle; working hard; hard fighting; fierce fighting
impossible to understand; impossible to decipher
foolhardiness; daredevil courage
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
tolerance; open-mindedness; forbearance; generosity; magnanimity
hope; wish; aspiration; (bright) prospects; expectation
to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)
-ish; -like; resembling; appearing to be; seeming to be
to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat
to be wet (with tears); to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked
recollecting; reminiscing; looking back; retrospection; review
placement; fixed position; mapping out; location
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
another (person); the other person; one more (person)
subtle seasoning that brings out the flavor; secret ingredient
to mix in (e.g. an ingredient)
to take aim (at); to set one's sights (on); to zero in (on)
to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again
lump of meat; piece of flesh; human body
to insert; to put between; to tuck (into)
bending; curving; warping (of feelings, logic, etc.); distortion; refraction; inflection
to clatter; to rattle; to flap (noisily); to get in a panic; to get in a flap; to rush around
unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood (e.g. of a conversation); unable to read the room
to forget something ever existed; to pretend something didn't happen; to put something behind one; to forgive (something)
to row; to paddle; to pedal (a bicycle, etc.); to swing (on a swing); to work (a hand pump); to push through (a thicket, deep snow, etc.)
frequent; continual; constant; great; intense; strong
the same generation; coeval
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)