understanding; comprehension; grasp; perception; appreciation; mastery (of an art or skill)
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate
to be open (to traffic); to lead to; to flow (liquid, current); to pass; to be understood; to be comprehended; to be honored
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
scrubbing hard; scrubbing clean
oral; verbal; spoken; parol
sign; mark; symbol; sign (e.g. positive, negative)
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
gap; break; pause; interval; cut; incision
isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
understood; I see; OK; present; here
height (of body); stature
to rest (from work, studying, etc.); to take a break
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
someone who is in their element; (lit.) fish that has found water
respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to each his own; people differ; different people (have different likes)
collar; color; colour; hair colouring (coloring); calla (variety of arum lily)
background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
to be reflected; to harmonize with (harmonise); to come out (photo); to be projected; to be displayed (on a screen)
here and there; in places
whole; entirety; whatever (is the matter)
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
to change places; to relieve one another; to replace someone
Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
absentmindedly; dazedly; vaguely
high-speed; rapid; express; highway; freeway; expressway
drawing; diagram; plans; blueprint
line; stripe; line (e.g. telephone line); wire; ray (e.g. X-ray); beam; line (e.g. of a railroad)
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
to reason; to sum up; to conclude
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding