full-course dinner; multicourse meal
store; reserve; stock; savings
at the critical moment; when the time comes; when it's most important; when necessary; in an emergency; when push comes to shove
future (usually near); prospects
hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member
unknown; obscure; insignificant
splendid; fine; praiseworthy; creditable; legal; legitimate
to hate; to dislike; to loathe
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
dissatisfaction; discontent; displeasure; complaint; unhappiness
to subsist; to keep on living
(starting) from nothing; from scratch
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
(on) one's own; (by) oneself
to revel in trouble and discord; to be bent on making trouble; to like starting fights
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
to shut; to close; to block (a street, entrance, etc.); to shut in (with snow, ice, etc.); to shut off; to consume (with negative feelings)
two people alike; two of a kind; kissing cousins; cut from the same cloth
unit; denomination; credit (in school); in units of (e.g. "in thousands"); in amounts of
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
training; drill; practice; discipline
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
collision; crash; running into; conflict; quarrel; clashing
pregnancy; conception; gestation
literally; to the letter; literal
bolt from the blue; great surprise
to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of