cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
to pair with; to pair up; to pair off
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
brush tip; first on a list; head; chief
shy; diffident; retiring; reserved
to loosen; to slacken; to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions)
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
actual spot; scene (of a crime, accident, etc.); (on) site; (on) the ground; filming location; (movie) set
to want something desperately; to want something (so badly one can taste it)
self first; striving to be first; scrambling for
leading actor; star; leading figure; central figure; key figure
premature; untimely (e.g. death); early
lack of expression; blank look (on one's face)
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
to be imaginable; to be conceivable
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
apple (fruit); apple tree (Malus pumila)
gorilla (Gorilla spp., esp. western gorilla, Gorilla gorilla)
camel; camel (cloth); cloth made from camel hair; camel (color); light yellowish brown
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
killing time; staving off boredom
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player
love of learning; desire for learning; passion for knowledge
(not) at all; (not) in the least; (none) whatsoever
pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.); search; chase; seeking after
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
to interrupt; to interfere; to meddle; to intrude; to butt in; to poke one's nose into
dangerous; perilous; threatening; stern (expression); hostile (attitude); sharp
to prove successful; to take hold; to amount to something
interruption; suspension; break
conference room; council room
to resound; to echo; to reverberate
argument; discussion; dispute; controversy
direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)
go that far; to that extent
sound source; sound generator; tone generator
it is not (like that) either
to apologize; to apologise
that day; the very same day
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
to let down one's guard; to relax one's guard