chancy trade or business with uncertain profitability; night entertainment business (e.g. hostess bar); nightlife business
suited figure; person in a suit
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
to persuade; to coax; to solicit; to seduce; to make advances; to make a play
cover (e.g. for illegal activity); front; Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant); straw raincoat that makes one invisible
most suitable; optimum; optimal; best
to grant (a wish); to accede; to comply with; to heed
lightning; electric illumination; light from an electric source
tire track; traces of a person or thing; path one has taken; locus
to drop like a rock (e.g. of reputation, power, influence); to go down the toilet
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
magic; conjuring; sleight of hand; legerdemain
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute
dropping; losing; missing item; something one forgot to write down; trap; wooden protrusion from a Japanese door frame that fits a hole in the threshold, acting as a lock when closed; conclusion (of a speech, etc.)
blocking (e.g. the way); obstructing; block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.); block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape); concrete block; blocking (from view, esp. of websites, on social media, etc.)
scattering (in all directions)
rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning
frontmost; a short time ago; a little while ago; just now
to cut open; to cut apart; to divide; to split
to blow up (i.e. wind); to blow upwards; to spout into the air
spine; backbone; spinal column
to creep up; to crawl up; to overcome (a bad situation); to rise (after a setback)
vermiculation; peristalsis; crawling like a worm
ruggedly; jaggedly; stiffly; choppy (e.g. graphics); lagged; clunky
fit; spasm; attack; seizure
diffuse reflection; diffused reflection; irregular reflection
drug; medicine; (illegal) drug; narcotics
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
potato (Solanum tuberosum)
stroboscope; strobe lamp; stroboscopic lamp; (camera) flash
switching on and off (of a light); flashing; blinking; flickering
roller coaster; big dipper
to place on (something); to take on board; to give a ride to
intoxication; being carried away by; being enraptured by
to have excess momentum (from going too fast, using too much force, etc.); to get carried away; to go overboard; to overdo (something)
to sniff out; to get wind of
rejection; expulsion; boycott; ostracism
to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)