preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
connection; attachment; changing trains; conjunction
insertion; incorporation; infixing
hard to understand; incomprehensible; unintelligible
ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
in preparation; (shop) not yet open for business
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; practice; action; implementation; fulfillment
recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
worried look; worried expression
with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names
unfeeling; heartless; cold-hearted; cruel
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
registration; accession; register; entry; record
renewal; update; innovation; improvement
programming language; programing language
derisory; negligible; minimal; nominal; imperceptible
performance; trick; feat; extraordinary deed; daring act; bold move
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
this (very thing); this precisely
sensual; voluptuous; sexy; arousing
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
perception; sensing; noticing
to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry
dimness; obscurity; indistinctness; unclear; unintelligible
to catch (someone's words); to make out; to follow; to ask about (a situation, circumstances, etc.); to inquire
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
he; she; samurai's attendant (in a var. of origami); type of popular song accompanied by dance from the Edo period
to show one's true colors (colours); to expose one's faults; to give oneself away