strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
nursing; care; caregiving; caring
holiday; day off; sleep; rest; Good night
thank you (for the meal); that was a delicious meal; thank you (for displaying lovey-dovey behaviour)
amendment; correction; revision; modification; alteration; retouching
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
pot (esp. teapot, coffee-pot); vacuum bottle; thermos flask
niddle-noddle; nid-nod; nodding off
to row a boat; to nod off; to doze off
to make someone realize (e.g. their mistake); to bring (something) home to someone; to teach someone a lesson
hard; tough; hardware; hard disk
to persevere; to keep at something (regardless of one's fatigue)
to let your hair down; to have fun after a period of work or stress
trivia; snippet of knowledge
top hundred; hundred best
good (place to leave off); convenient
plot (of a story); plotting (a graph)
spine; line of the backbone; seam down the back (of clothing)
fear; dread; fright; willies
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
criticizing; lambasting; pointing out faults; calling for a retake; ordering (somebody) to redo something
text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter); this passage; this sentence
suggestion; hint; implication
to do over again; to redo; to start over; to remake; to resume; to recommence
death; rejection (of a manuscript, etc.); lacking; without
half asleep and half awake; trance; dream and reality
to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)
extremely; terrifically; super
springy (texture); doughy; elastic
(using) one's whole body; (putting in) all one's efforts; (exerting) all one's energies
coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay
new work; new production; new composition; new creation; new title
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
with intense concentration; eagerly; intently; devouringly
to fall forward (of a person); to tumble forward
to write (a play, book, filmscript, etc.)
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
elevation (of spirits); raising (of morale); uplift; upsurge
relation; connection; relevance
process; course; mechanism
to rub together; to reconcile (ideas, proposals, plans); to compare and adjust
reader (person); person who reads the cards (in karuta games); composer (of a poem)