faltering; tottering; halting; unsteady; awkward; clumsy
to encourage; to cheer on; to cheer (someone) up; to raise (one's voice)
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish
abdomen; belly; womb; one's mind; one's real intentions; courage; nerve
to fall on one's backside; to land on one's rear
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
farmer; farming family; farmhouse; School of Agrarianism (China); School of Agronomists
food; food products; foodstuffs
manufacturing; processing; treatment; machining
poverty-stricken; destitute; poor; penurious
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
to be surprised; to be bewildered; to be confused; to be flustered; to roll one's eyes up and down
temporary; provisional; fictitious; assumed (name); hypothetical; theoretical
end (e.g. of a line); tail end; rear; backmost part
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
wanted poster; wanted person bulletin; search instructions
since when; from when; how long
a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)
loud laughter; roaring with laughter
rolled egg; rolled omelette (omelet); fried egg; frying pan for making rolled eggs
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred
cheerful; merry; sunny; bright (sky, day, etc.); fine; clear
invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass
bridge (of a koto, etc.); cylinder; prism
not going (well); not proceeding (as one wishes); bad; not good; hopeless; beyond hope
to raise; to elevate; to move something (to a higher place); to put onto (e.g. a shelf); to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to raise (a wage); to show someone (into a room)
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
to relax; to feel at home
punch (with the fist); punching (a hole); hole punch; punch (drink); punch (in a song, speech, etc.); impact
(stare or glare with) scornful eyes; reproachful eyes; disgusted eyes
generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds
vast; extensive; immense; huge; large; grand
you could say; you might say; verging on the
(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
to follow (a rule, precedent, etc.); to conform to (the law, standards, etc.); to be proportionate to; to correspond to; to be equivalent to
whole nation; whole land; whole country
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference); marked; (far) better; exceptional
to walk about; to walk around; to conduct oneself; to act; to stop by (somewhere; esp. of a criminal on the run); to drop by