drone; unmanned aircraft; drone
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
meddling; interfering; choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one
going on ahead; forestalling; anticipating; arrival before another
many; much; plenty; hardly
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
victory; triumph; conquest; success; win
conviction; belief; confidence
question; inquiry; enquiry
interference; intervention; meddling
to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite
what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much
perception; sensing; noticing
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to blow away; to blow off; to dispel; to drive away; to talk big
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
that being the case; in that case; if that's how it's going to go
substance; real form; main part; main unit; this machine; this appliance; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
to take back; to regain; to get back; to recover
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
good person; virtuous person
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
bad feeling; feeling bad; disagreeable; unpleasant; revolting; gross
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
to look around; to survey
trickling (of water); flickering (of fire); darting about (e.g. a small animal); scampering about
present (e.g. government, administration); current; existing
manners; behavior; behaviour
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
ancestor; forefather; foremother
descendant; posterity; offspring
quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence
acceleration; speeding up