to deprecate oneself and praise the listener; to abase oneself
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
lost child; lost person; stray child; missing child
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
patriarch; head of a family
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
decision; settlement; definition
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
to speak; to say; to vocalize
to be of no concern to one; to be nothing to do with one
intimidating air; sense of intimidation
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
strong pressure; heavy pressure
to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)
to understand from experience
I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; I feel regretful; thank you very much (for help, etc.)
to be perturbed; to be agitated
lukewarm; tepid; half-hearted; vague; lenient; mild
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
exchange; reciprocation; give-and-take; reply; riposte
to unfold; to unroll; to open
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
to break; to be broken; to be folded; to give in; to back down; to turn (a corner)
only; merely; but; no more than
bag; satchel; briefcase; basket
counter for articles; counter for military units; individual
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
lightly (floating); buoyantly; puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.); tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.); blowing (a flute, whistle)
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
body; oneself; one's place; one's position; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.)
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope