gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
suffix for familiar person
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
to turn away; to face away; to ignore; to be uncooperative; to be unconciliatory
to bedaub (with paint); to besmear; to paint heavily; to spread thickly
speech and conduct; words and deeds
to change; to alter; to reform; to correct; to examine; to check
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
paper scoop used in goldfish scooping
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
to behave buggily (of software); to act up; to behave strangely
wicked thought; wicked mind
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
previous time; last time; previous installment; previous instalment; previous session
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
splendid; fine; praiseworthy; creditable; legal; legitimate
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
small fraction; small proportion
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
springy (texture); doughy; elastic
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
honorific/polite/humble prefix
I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
to be needed; to be wanted
silence (not speaking); muteness
leaving as is; leaving alone; leaving to chance; neglecting; abandoning
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about