to be effective; to be fruitful; to be worthwhile; to be worth; to be rewarded; to pay off
solitude; loneliness; isolation
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard
slight; little; insignificant
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
oath; vow; pledge; covenant
to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around
to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way); to put off; to delay; to postpone
to put something on top of another thing; to superimpose
to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle
stars; the stars and planets; celestial bodies
distant view; looking from a distance; good long distance vision; farsightedness
happy; auspicious; propitious; naive
malicious; ill-tempered; unkind
jamming a finger; stubbing a toe; spraining a finger (toe)
on closer reflection; on second thought; come to think of it; actually
to draw close to; to edge up to; to snuggle up to; to nestle close to; to cuddle with; to draw closer to
to be kind to; to treat kindly
fruitless effort; wasted effort; abortive scheme; futility
bad feeling; feeling bad; disagreeable; unpleasant; revolting; gross
look who's talking; I don't want to hear it from you; are you in any position to say that?
with a snap; with a bang; with a plonk; suddenly; all of a sudden
to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; knot (in wood); node in a bamboo stem
inside of a castle; area surrounded by castle walls
busy; hurried; confused; flurried
to make efforts; to take pains; to break a bone
suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally