well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable
secret (method, trick, etc.); key (e.g. to success); mysteries (of an art, trade, etc.); recipe; trick
way one walks; one's walk
to wind (thread, film, etc.)
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
pickled (something); pickled in (something); preserved in; overreliance on (e.g. medication); excessive use of
seeking the bizarre (abnormal, grotesque, etc.)
seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time; two-timing; bifurcation; fork; fence-sitting; playing it both ways
divergence; ramification; bifurcation; branching off
vein (of ore); reef; streak; lode
authenticity; credibility
for (some) doubtful points to remain
ironist; sarcastic person; sharp tongue; satirist
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
to interlace; to fit together; to combine; to mingle
Dutchman's pipe cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum); night-blooming cereus; queen of the night
to bewitch; to confuse; to enchant; to delude
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
vast; limitless; boundless
phone trace; detecting the source of a telephone call
noshi; long thin strip of dried abalone in folded patterned paper, attached to a gift
removing one's hat; admiring someone greatly; "taking off one's hat" to someone
being excluded; being ignored; being kept in the dark (about); being kept out of the loop; (lit.) outside the mosquito net
leaving somebody behind; abandoning someone; marooning someone
to sink (into one's seat, etc.); to leap to one's death (by drowning); to be reduced to (esp. working as a prostitute)
sky; the skies; high-altitude sky; upper air
joining; joint; intermediation; acting as an intermediary; relaying; taking over; middle relief pitcher
remote past; far ago; time immemorial
character; disposition; spirit; temperament
intermittently; bit by bit; little by little; in drops (e.g. of rain)
drearily; with desolation; with loneliness (esp. the rain and wind)