smoky; awkward; ill at ease
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
chemical reaction; generation of an unexpected result from combining things
selection; classification; sorting; screening; triage
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
taciturn; reticent; quiet; silent; untalkative
device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement
a kind; a sort; of sorts; something of a; sort of; somewhat
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
crossing; traversing; traversing horizontally; passing west to east (or east to west); cutting horizontally
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on
lukewarm; tepid; (arch.) slow; (arch.) stupid
to be annoying; to be troublesome; to be a burden
words; writing; ci (form of Chinese poetry); independent word
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
sky; air; ether; firmament; the heavens
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
starry night; starlight night
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
to raise one's hand; to surrender; to raise one's hand to someone (as a threat to strike); to become better (at something); to improve; to throw one's hat in the ring
night air; stillness of night; cool evening
element (esp. component in electronics); elemental device; device; data; datum
outer canthus; outer corner of the eye
branch (of flowers); cluster; mass (of clouds)
second (party to an agreement); the B party (e.g. in a contract); stylish; chic; strange; quaint
to bend down; to bow down; to prostrate oneself; to hide oneself
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
to crawl towards; to creep up to