sieve; sifter; screen; screening (jobs, candidates, etc.)
triumphant; exultant; in high and proud spirits
feeling guilty; having a guilty conscience; having qualms about
easy to read; legible; clear
signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking
confronting directly; meeting face-to-face
(Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology
to apply correspondingly; to correspond to; to be proportionate to; to conform to
one four-of-a-kind and one three-of-a-kind in a dealt hand; three and a four (in dice games)
kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; kabuki play; kabuki performance; make-believe; ruse
to brave a danger; to take a risk
to constrict one's chest; to wring one's heart; to wrench one's heart
to respect; to honor; to honour; to esteem; to prize
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
immediate; prompt; quick; rapid; urgent; pressing
failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards
to go after one's dreams; to follow one's dreams; to pursue one's dreams
as good as dead; might as well be dead; more dead than alive
to take back; to recapture
column; beam; girder; digit; decade; order of magnitude
to change places; to relieve one another; to replace someone
right of control; supremacy; sovereignty
to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call
light; easy; non-serious; minor
to bend down; to bow down; to prostrate oneself; to hide oneself
to show respect for; to revere; to honour; to honor; to worship; to hold in esteem
to insert; to put in; to send in (to a prisoner; e.g. clothes, books); to deliver (food, refreshments, etc. to workers); to supply
bad luck; bad fortune; evil; wickedness
like a decent person; human
craving; longing; thirsting
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
to beg; to request; to beseech; to implore; to entreat
struggling; pawing (e.g. horses' hooves)
outside world; physical world
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
unsociable; unfriendly; blunt; surly; curt; cold