to attract interest; to arouse someone's interest
signboard; sign; draw; attraction; reputation (of a shop); name
metre; meter; meter; gauge
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
paella (Spanish rice dish)
saucepan; pot; stew; hot pot
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
pipe; tube; channels, official or otherwise; (business) connections; tobacco pipe
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
energy; energy; strength; energy source; energy resource; food energy
to shine; to glitter; to sparkle
emission (of light); radiation (of light); luminescence
sunlight; rays of the Sun
reflection; reverberation; reflex; reflexes
to rain incessantly; to downpour
New Year's pine decoration
objet d'art; item of artwork; object; curio
producer (film, TV, etc.)
decisively; decidedly; boldly; precisely; exactly
somehow; somewhat; seemingly
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord
solar day (esp. on planets other than Earth); sol (currency of Peru)
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
sun; saint; San (people); son
half; biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage
order (for an item); request; demand; condition
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official