brown tabby; brown-speckled cat
engagingly; cordially; amiably; sociably; hospitably
meow; miaow; cat; kitty; pussy cat
warm; comfortable; snug; cozy; cosy; pleasant
cry (of an animal); call; chirp; song; caw; roar
I Am a Cat (1906 novel by Natsume Soseki)
intellectual; educated person; intelligentsia
calico (pattern); tortoiseshell-and-white; calico cat; tortoiseshell-and-white cat
feminist; man who indulges women; gentleman
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
appropriate; suitable; fitting; apt; proper; right
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
(looking) over the top of one's glasses; (looking) through a pair of glasses
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
early dawn; grey of morning; gray of morning
to weigh on one's mind; to trouble one's heart; to be concerned about; to worry about
strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious
blasphemous; profane; sacrilegious
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
ornament; decorative object; figurehead; leader without real power
free translation; liberal translation
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
one-sided; unilateral; arbitrary
paying back in installments (instalments); amortization plan (amortisation); gradual progression (oft. into an unwanted state); doing little by little; proceeding in a continual and vague fashion; gradually obscuring
formation; establishment; conclusion (e.g. of a deal); reaching (e.g. an agreement); being valid (of a theory, argument, etc.); holding
to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
to be at a loss for words
having said that; on the other hand; (but) then; (but) still
to overcome (opposition); to push past; to force one's way; to press and cut
lawlessness; injustice; wrong; outrageous; lawless; disorderly
menu; bill of fare; program; programme; schedule
to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing; to carry
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water
opinion; view; comment; scolding; reprimand; rebuke
to try and judge a person's feelings (from their expression)
to subsist; to keep on living