bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; confusion
connection; link; relationship
dialogue; discussion; conversation; interaction
invoking a deity during a festival held in that deity's honor; medium's invocation of a deity to take possession of her (to receive his divine message or revelation)
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
effect; efficacy; virtue; benefit
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over; to talk foolishly
samurai on horseback; (medieval) knight
to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time
show (of power, ability, etc.); exhibition; demonstration; display; manifestation
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
country; territory; domain; realm
average; mean; balance; equilibrium
pretext; pretense; pretence
to treat; to handle; to deal with; to arrange; to decorate; to dress
favourite child; favourite student; apple of one's eye
hesitation; bewilderment; illusion; delusion; inability to reach enlightenment
semi-governmental; semi-official
government; administration
order; system; structure; set-up; organization; organisation
pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters; having a tendency towards; being close to
pure; true; genuine; unmixed
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
to serve; to work for; to attend
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
fairness; impartiality; justice; objectivity
to fix (a time, date, etc.); to set; to expect; to hope for; to resolve (to do); to decide upon
restriction; restraint; binding; constraint
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued
on bad terms; at loggerheads
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
male help; male labor; man's handwriting; (arch.) kanji
compulsion; coercion; forcing (to do); enforcement
to concern; to be related
whole life; a lifetime; all through life; (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
to follow; to accompany; to cleave to; to join up with; to obey implicitly; to flatter
figure; design; twill weave; pattern of diagonal stripes; style (of writing); figure (of speech); design
now that you say that; now that you mention it
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street