ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card
threat; bird-scaring device (scarecrow, gun, etc.)
conference; consultation; discussion; negotiation
to make sure of; to ascertain; to confirm; to grasp
chattering (teeth); (frozen, worried) stiff; rigid (personality, thinking, etc.); inflexible; voracious (e.g. work, study); without slack or pause
dialogue; conversation; talk; discussion; communication
strength and weakness; (degree of) strength; stress (of a sound); loudness
but; however; although; even though
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
to search (esp. a home in a police search)
singularity; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; specificity
to choose at one's own discretion; to choose when to do something; to estimate (the time for something)
desperation; self-abandonment
to wring the neck; to strangle
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); the underlying principles of the cosmos (in neo-Confucianism)
dispatch; despatch; transmission; informing (e.g. of opinion); sharing (thoughts, etc.); telling
side (esp. of a waterbody); edge; bank; shore
destruction; ruin; nirvana; cessation (of earthly desires); dying (from overwhelming emotion); being overwhelmed (by something)
to leave nothing undone; to give good service; to attend to everything; to be on someone's tracks (e.g. police); to catch up with; to close in on
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
society; the world; the times
cold-blooded; unfeeling; heartless; heart of stone; inconsiderate
machine; race car; racing motorcycle
to (enter and) sit down; to plop oneself down; to plant oneself down; to sit down (and refuse to move); to sit in (in protest)
cosmetics; beauty products; toiletries; makeup
manicure; nail polish; nail varnish
performance (as opposed to practice); going before an audience or on-air; game; match; high of the season; height (of summer, etc.)
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout
to appear uneasy; to appear anxious
clasp; latch; catch; fastener
starting (e.g. of an engine); engaging (e.g. of a lock); expenses; costs; attack (esp. a corner approach); barb (of a fish hook)
leaving one's seat (before an event is over); excusing oneself (from a meeting, conversation, etc.)
to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby); to take upon oneself; to be saddled with
to enter (house, room, etc.); to step in