laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
staff; stuff; stuffing; filling
trial; judgement; judgment
old age; old person; the old; the aged
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
shape; form; appearance; state; situation; suitable
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)
than; from; out of; except; but; more
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
serious; not joking; straight
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
future (usually near); prospects
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
beginning; outset; first; onset
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
so much; so often; oh, yes!; that's it; that's right; quite
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
to live through; to survive
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
to subsist; to keep on living
to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself
to enclose; to impound; to cut off; to corral
to fish; to look for; to search for; to go on a spree (spending, reading, etc.); to binge