interest (on a deposit, loan, etc.)
free time; spare time; idle moment
to close one's eyes partly; to squint; to smile with one's whole face; to smile sweetly (at); to look fondly (at)
smoothly; swimmingly; forthrightly; without hesitation
very unlikely to ...; showing no signs of ...
to take on; to undertake; to take over; to inherit; to guarantee; to vouch for
mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
to screw up (one's face); to scrunch up; to pucker up; to furrow (one's brow); to wrinkle
on good terms (with); on friendly terms (with); (getting along) well; in harmony; happily; peacefully
to play around (of a cat, dog, etc.); to frisk; to gambol; to frolic
to stroke down; to smooth down
(school) subject; curriculum; course; item; heading; entry
subtleties; niceties; fine points; subtle; sensitive
relationship; relation; terms (good, friendly, etc.)
plating (chrome, gold, silver, etc.); coating; gilding; pretense; pretence; simulation
(another's) daughter; young lady (esp. of respectable upbringing)
as much as one wants; as many as one wants; all that one wishes for
(deliberate) misinterpretation; distortion (of someone's words, etc.); contortion; perversion; disingenuous understanding
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
affidavit; deposition; testimony
to become enraged; to blow one's top; to lose it; to flip out
that's not a nice thing to say; that's not a nice way of putting it; there was no need to say that
development; cultivation; application; exploitation (of resources)
magic; sorcery; incantation
(instruction) manual; handbook
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
carving; engraving; sculpture
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
recent past; recent times; early modern period (Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo in Japan)
personification; impersonation; embodiment
to bow one's head; to hang one's head; to droop (e.g. ears of grain)
wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible
counter for places (offices, facilities, stations)
to mistake (A for B); to misread
like; similar to; something like ...; someone like ...
to be full of (e.g. adventure, youth, energy); to be overflowing with
lapping (e.g. of waves against the shore); steadily (advancing); gradually (approaching); sufficient (of the amount of liquid needed to cover a submerged object); just enough; (arch.) speedily
(one's) shame and public reputation; (one's) sense of shame and concern for appearances
to dominate (usu. one's husband)
to babble in one's cups; to ramble drunkenly
mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife