management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
nonexistent; unreal; imaginary; spurious
hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
to set off to advantage; to bring into prominence; to support; to favor; to rouse (spirits); to march (a prisoner) off
sixth day of the month; six days
leading; guiding; commanding
feather; plume; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)
favourable direction; favorable direction; lucky direction
is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial
(musical) time; tempo; beat; the moment; the instance; chance
single seater (e.g. boat, aeroplane, airplane)
confused; flustered; at a loss
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
steepness; steep place; harsh (look); sharp (tongue)
paying no heed to; not caring about; taking no notice of
puncture; flat tyre (tire); blowout; bursting; overflowing; being jammed (e.g. phone lines)
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
New Year's Week (festivities)
to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.
New Year's decoration with cocoon-shaped cakes
daruma; tumbling doll; Bodhidharma; prostitute
each; respectively; individually; separately
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair
(public) notice; attention; public eye; public gaze
to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by
water and sky; Varuna; Vedic god of water and sky (adopted into Buddhism as god of water and protector of the west)
palace; tonic (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); ancient Chinese punishment (castration for men, or confinement for women); zodiacal sign
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite
(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain
desperation; despair; self-abandonment
to meddle; to poke one's nose into; to interfere; to make a pass at; to flirt with; to make a move on