duty; obligation; responsibility
to attract; to be used to
partly open; in half bloom
to badger; to pester; to beg
soft; tender; supple; flexible; gentle; mild
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
highest grade; finest quality; top class; superlative (degree)
which is which; one or the other
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
absentmindedly; dazedly; vaguely
to blend (something) in; to spread (on) thoroughly; to apply evenly (to the skin, hair, etc.); to make (something or someone) used to (an environment, etc.); to adapt; to acclimatize
suicide bombing (e.g. crashing one's plane into a target); self-destruction; blowing oneself up
to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable
to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down
to harm; to hurt; to fail to do; to do amiss; to almost do; to come close to doing
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
direct proportion; direct ratio
downy hair; down; vellus hair; lanugo
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.)
soft hair; downy hair; fur; (intestinal) villus
instead of; replacing; on behalf of
subjectivity; subject (philosophical); ego; one's personal opinion; one's own idea
almost certainly; in all probability; ten to one; near-completeness; near-perfection; ninety-nine percent (finished, etc.)
treachery; betrayal; perfidy
a seal affixed to a document
to melt (steel, etc.); to liquefy; to soften; to melt (one's heart); to disarm
passions; sexual desire; lust
nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyo; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world
chonmage; topknot hairstyle worn by men in the Edo period, and sumo wrestlers today; please do (for me)
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
(meeting with) disaster; (having an) accident; mishap; shipwreck; distress