to pretend; to act (as if)
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
hey there; I say; see here
intellectual; educated person; intelligentsia
to be one's ruin; to do harm; to cause trouble; to have negative consequences; to bring about a bad outcome
payment of debts; repayment
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
to buy; to purchase; to buy out
one's station in life; one's personal history; one's circumstances; one's lot; one's destiny; one's future
to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan); to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable; to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
as it is; plain (truth); bare; undisguised; unvarnished; unexaggerated
wild; unruly; arrogant; endless (e.g. spending); uncontrolled; rampant (e.g. weeds)
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
to take part in (usu. something bad); to be a party to; to have a hand in
to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid
difficult to understand; unintelligible; abstruse
to read and understand; to interpret (e.g. a difficult text); to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
unrelated; unconnected; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
happiness; well-being; joy; welfare; blessedness
fraud; cheating; foul play; trickery; hoax; swindle
simultaneously; all at once; in unison
to make a great fuss; to raise a hue and cry; to make an uproar; to clamour
sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...; it's obvious that ...
to pester someone (e.g. to buy something)
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
material; materials; data; information; documents
to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)
to soothe; to calm; to pacify
pressing; urging; demanding; demand
intracerebral; inside the brain; (occurring) in the mind; mental (e.g. image); imaginary
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
God; god; deity; ace; king; superior person
to pray; to say a prayer; to say grace; to wish; to hope
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself