three sides; small offering stand
presenter; speaker; performer; actor; participant (in a TV show or TV panel)
impassioned speech; fervent speech
laws and ordinances; acts (of parliament, congress, etc.)
noisy; loud; much talked of; much-discussed; strict; severe
worker; breadwinner; supporter; able person; able man; productive worker
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
to complete decisively; to do to completion
appearance; look; a 'seeming' that fortune-tellers relate to one's fortune; aspect; phase (e.g. solid, liquid and gaseous)
prosperity; flourishing; thriving
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
contraband; taboo; strictly forbidden
quotient; dealing; dealer; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (China, approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)
lick; bottom card of the draw pile; (arch.) tasting (a nobleman's) medicine to see if it contains poison; (arch.) medicine taster
audience; attendance; hearers
to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully
government; administration; statesmanship
determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech; (arch.) divining good or bad luck from listening to someone
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
anything and everything; just about everything
whimsy; looseness; indiscretion; laxity
overripeness; full maturity; full development
three types of relatives (e.g. father, children and grandchildren; parents, siblings, wife and children; etc.)
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
foreign enemy; outside invader
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
distortion; falsification; perversion
difference; distinction; discrepancy; mistake; error
to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
counter for wheels and flowers
to shoot (arrow, bolt, dart)
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago