dull; uninteresting; boring; drab
faith; belief; piety; devotion; godliness
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)
to coagulate; to curdle; to be fanatical; to be obsessed with; to stiffen; to become stiff
glass (drinking vessel); tumbler; cups (playing card suit)
indescribable; inexpressible; unspeakable; indefinable; nobody can tell
to set a ladder up against
afterwards; at a later time; later on; after some time
to consider (all the circumstances); to bear (a number of things) in mind
feeling uneasy; very worried; very anxious; on tenterhooks; on pins and needles
any and every thing; altogether; lock, stock, and barrel; the whole shooting match; the whole kit and caboodle; without reserve
this (very thing); this precisely
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
what's what; heads or tails
hearsay; learning by hearsay
anthropoid ape; anthropoid; ape
(not) altogether; (not) wholly
tall story; tall tale; cock-and-bull story
to drill; to bore; to hit the mark; to get to the heart of (the matter); (arch.) to put on; (arch.) to wear
describing; comparing; form; figure; personal appearance; one's face and figure
support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
demon; devil; evil spirit; -crazed person; -obsessed person; fiend
pasturing; letting (an animal) run loose; letting (someone) do as they please; leaving (something) to take its own course; letting (an issue) go unchecked
walking sideways; staggering; striding; being rampant; being widespread; being prevalent
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter
villain; outlaw; assassin
to coil itself (e.g. a snake); to loaf around
leader of a (large) group; large decorative black flagpole tassel made from tail hair (of a yak, horse, ox, etc.) or dyed hemp; puffbird (any bird of family Bucconidae); first makushita rikishi listed on the banzuke
to boil; to simmer; to stew; to seethe
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
rainfall; snowfall; alighting; descending
numeral; figure; digit; numeric character
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
from out of nowhere; from who knows where
magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell