charm; fascination; glamour; glamor; attraction; appeal
if you think about it; come to think of it
for the time being; for the present; immediate; present; for some time (after); current account
to take advantage of; to impose on; to make an entry (in an account book)
saying "Ah!"; making one say "Ah!"; surprisingly; astonishingly
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
creak; squeak; creaking sound
magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly
to persuade; to coax; to solicit; to seduce; to make advances; to make a play
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
to expose; to lay open (e.g. secret); to take apart; to disassemble; to kill; to murder; to dress (meat)
to pant; to gasp; to be short of breath; to be excited
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
to have a secret affair; to meet secretly (for two persons); to flirt with one another
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
will not do; do not; does not
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
to set free; to let go; to release; to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to let get away
to tell (to do); to order; to tell on (someone); to tattle; to often say
paltry amount of money; cheapness; worthlessness; three one-mon coins
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
to hold (someone) down; to pin down; to wrestle to the ground
to be moist; to be damp; to profit by; to receive benefits; to become rich; to become at ease financially
wings of the nose (i.e. nostril)
to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut
to hang (something) on (something); to throw on (clothes); to hook; to catch; to cheat; to evade payment; to drink (alcohol)
passions; sexual desire; lust
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
nape (of the neck); nucha
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
to run away; to flee; to make off; to start to run away
confusion; dismay; consternation; panic
being extremely busy; being swamped with work
order; sequence; procedure
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
to pin down; to knock down; to push (and hold) somebody down (esp. with sexual connotations)
shrewd; astute; cunning; alert
fern (esp. species Gleichenia japonica); fernery