to move; to shift; to inspire; to rouse; to change; to alter; to operate
silence; being silent; quiet; reticence; inaction
soon; before long; slowly; quietly; already; about time
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
abrupt; sudden; unexpected
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
to see to it that ...; to make sure that ...; to try to ...; to make an effort to ...
(for the) first time; something used (worn, etc.) for the first time; new item; first of the season (crop, fruit, etc.)
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
Thursday; wood (first of the five elements)
strength; toughness; bravery; boldness
tree; shrub; wood; timber; wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
polite; courteous; careful; close; overly courteous; overly careful
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
strong; potent; strong; brawny; good (at); skilled; being able to handle
ironclad rule; inviolable rule; invariable principle; iron law
to know; to understand; to (understand and) accept (a responsibility); to have a knowledge of (a skill, art, etc.); to have a command of
to one's heart's content or satisfaction
to give oneself to (esp. of a woman to a man); to surrender oneself to
cheap lodging (especially in a skid row area or slum); flophouse
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as ...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
to see through (a lie, scheme, etc.); to see into (someone's mind); to read (someone's true feelings); to penetrate
considerably; not a little; in no small numbers
reaction; response; physical reaction (to a stimulus); observable response (of an organism); reaction; effect
influential person; powerful person; big wheel; big gun; power behind the throne
to pretend; to act (as if)
to expose one's faults; to have one's defects exposed; to show oneself up
friend; ally; supporter; taking sides (with); supporting; standing by
honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
to boil up; to come to the boil; to arise; to break out; to get excited; to be in uproar
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
to shake; to sway; to rock; to become unstable; to become unsettled; to be shaken
very young; little; childish; immature
Sunday; nth day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young woman; young (animal); offshoot