to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
thankfully; fortunately; luckily; thanks to your (his, their, everyone's, etc.) kindness; thanks to your assistance; thanks to your support
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
intimidating air; sense of intimidation
older brother; elder brother
phantom; vision; illusion
to shake one's head (in denial)
to come back; to return; to recur
what's the matter?; what's wrong?
to draw back; to leave (the area)
to hurt one's reputation; to be ashamed of oneself; to lose one's honour
reserve; spare; treasured; valued; (ace) up one's sleeve; trump
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
satisfaction; contentment; sufficient; satisfactory; satisfying (an equation)
that is to say; so that means
contradiction; inconsistency
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
now that; since; so long as; because
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
accessories; small articles; minor character; small fry; weak one
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
to vomit; to throw up; to emit; to send forth; to give (an opinion); to make (a comment)
to knock down; to knock out
inner thoughts; real intention; at heart; deep down; inner center (centre)
gang assault; mob violence; gang rape
to be blind to one's shortcomings; to play innocent
treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe and humor (humour)
wholly (due to); entirely; solely; earnestly; intently; sincerely
grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence
charisma (i.e. attractiveness, charm); charisma (i.e. divinely conferred power or talent); charism; charismatic person; someone famous (usu. for their talent); celebrity
outside of; not covered by
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be