kitchen; financial situation
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
(animal) feed; fodder; pet food; bait; lure; enticement
describing; comparing; form; figure; personal appearance; one's face and figure
creeping about; stirring restlessly; squirming
to move; to shift; to inspire; to rouse; to change; to alter; to operate
troublesome; bothersome; tiresome; annoying
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to refer (to); to say
between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort
thick; viscous; muddy; dirty (with oil, grease, etc.); to be in an ugly state (of emotions, relations, etc.); to be murky
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
difficult to ...; hard to ...
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
beginning; outset; first; onset
definitely; absolutely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
indefinite; hazy; vague; unsettled; undecided
to hang up; to end a telephone conversation
articulation; speaking one's lines smoothly; reciting one's lines well
emergency; extraordinary; unusual
to catch (someone's words); to make out; to follow; to ask about (a situation, circumstances, etc.); to inquire
at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because; as you know
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
fern (esp. species Gleichenia japonica); fernery
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
to excuse oneself; to take one's leave; to quit; to resign; to decline; to turn down
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)