kind; tender-hearted; compassionate
embarrassed; feeling ashamed; feeling awkward
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); thinking ill of a person based on a misunderstanding; unjustified resentment caused by a misunderstanding; responding to kindness with resentment
to chip (off); to shave (off); to slice (off); to dampen (e.g. enthusiasm); to discourage; to weaken
to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
(unpleasant) state of affairs; predicament; mess
shackles; fetters; irons; bonds (e.g. family); ties; binding relationship
I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...
painful; being sorry; feeling sorry
inorganic matter; mineral matter; cold; inhuman; robotic
live coals (for firelighting); cause (of disturbance, conflict, etc.); trigger
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
to see through; to see the true nature of something
to overestimate (someone); to overrate; to think too highly of; to make too much of; to give (someone) too much credit
sneakily; secretly; stealthily; on the sly
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
the reverse; other side; lining
the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; as soon as; whether or not
strumming; thrumming; plunking; plonking
strumming; thrumming; plunking; plonking
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
Sunday; day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
(social) position; status
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
to break; to smash; to defeat; to destroy; to eliminate
people; citizens; subjects; folk
rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive
substitution; replacement; shifting; change
learning by ear; memory of having heard something before
first generation; founder
fiction; fabrication; concoction; fictitious; fictional; imaginary
present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
concealment; suppression; hiding
complete lie; outright lie
to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off
to resemble; to look like; to be like; to be alike; to be similar; to take after
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
source (of a transmission, broadcast, etc.); point of origin
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to be worth; to be worthy of; to deserve; to merit
freely; impudently; brazenly; shamelessly; however one wishes