drawing a katana and attacking in the same stroke; doing (something) suddenly and without warning; doing without prior notice
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
idea; design; motif; conception; intention
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
institution; establishment; facility; home (for elderly, orphans, etc.)
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
exaggeration; overstatement; saying too much; misstatement; slip of the tongue; gaffe
numbness; going to sleep (of a limb); pins and needles
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
buttocks; behind; undersurface; bottom; last place; end
electronic cigarette; e-cigarette
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
to be digested; to master (a skill); to be proficient; to mature (e.g. personality); to mellow; to mature (foodstuff)
to insert; to put in; to have a griping pain; to flow in; to shine in
pale; pallid; bluish-white
to pick; to pluck; to snip; to cut; to nip
to put into the mouth; to eat
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
faint; indistinct; dim; (arch.) few; (arch.) a little
to tickle; to tickle (one's curiosity, vanity, etc.); to arouse; to make laugh; to amuse
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of
(I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); (I) fancy (that)
going backward; turning back; backtracking; retrogression; relapse; returning to a bad state
originally; by nature; from the start
Your Majesty; His Majesty; Her Majesty
intelligence agency; secret service
starting; inauguration; launch; founding; establishment; start-up
300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
establishment; founding; incorporation (of a business)
true character; true heart; true spirit
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)