to use as a pretext; to use as an excuse
bad; wrong; evil; no good; wicked; reprehensible
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
to taste; to try (food or drink)
weekday; ordinary days (i.e. non-holiday); kanji radical 73
attendance (on); chaperonage; attendant; escort; entourage
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
market price; speculation (e.g. on stocks); reputation (according to conventional wisdom); estimation
curry (esp. Japanese curry); rice and curry
dispersal; breaking up; running away; fleeing
to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
numbness; going to sleep (of a limb); pins and needles
(earthenware) mortar (for grinding)
magic; Magic Marker; felt-tip pen; magic number
sleeping powder; sleeping drug; narcotic; anaesthetic; anesthetic
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
rapidly; quickly; briskly; booming (e.g. of a drum)
theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan
ability; capability; competence; skill
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series; -type
producer (film, TV, etc.)
to take off (another's clothes); to strip someone (of their clothes); to undress
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
with a great deal of effort; laboriously
very difficult to ...; nearly impossible to ...
posture; position; pose; attitude
magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly
screen; curtain; raster; room divider; partition wall
projection; protrusion; lump; bulge
toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.
falling plump; falling down flat
insincere smile; ingratiating smile; polite smile; forced smile
waiting room; anteroom; antechamber; green room
couscous; cuscus (variety of phalanger)
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)