certain; sure; definite; reliable; sound; solid
satisfaction; contentment; sufficient; satisfactory; satisfying (an equation)
yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript
contents; content; substance; matter; detail; import
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
seat; place; position; status; gathering; party; stand
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
how long; how far; how much
if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
reserve; spare; treasured; valued; (ace) up one's sleeve; trump
compensating; making up for; supplementation
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something or other; this and that; one thing this, another thing that; blah blah blah
trouble; difficulties; dispute; confusion; disorder; mess
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
to shoot a person to death
to devise; to arrange; to plan; to plot
taking captive; carrying away; kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction
anything and everything; just about everything
to originate with; to start with; to stem from
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
to wait for one's chance; to wait for an opportunity
to contract; to undertake; to take over; to take responsibility for
one's younger brother; underling (e.g. in yakuza); junior male peer; sworn younger brother
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment
to take advantage of; to follow blindly; to multiply
imitation; fake; phony; pseudo-
to try; to attempt; to have a go (at something)
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to mislead; to misguide
stabbing to death; putting out
respect and affection; love and respect
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)