truthfulness; credibility; sincerity; honesty; good faith
dramatic (improvement); remarkable (difference); marked; (far) better; exceptional
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
papier-mâché tiger (toy with a loose, wobbly head); paper tiger; someone (or something) who is all bark and no bite; man of straw
valid; proper; right; appropriate; reasonable
to shout; to cry; to scream; to clamour
(not so) much; (not) very
word for word; verbatim; a single word and a single phrase
eternal; unlimited; endless
doubtful; questionable; uncertain; disputable; suspicious
actual existence; real existence; existing in real life
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood
to have; to possess; to own; to be endowed with
function; facility; faculty; feature
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
mundane; routine; everyday; unremarkable; common; day-to-day
to participate in; to take part in; to play a part in; to receive; to be given; to enjoy
how; in what way; by what means
stag seaweed (Codium fragile); green sea fingers; dead man's fingers; felty fingers; forked felt-alga; sponge seaweed
from the place (where); from the fact that ...; caused by the fact that ...; because
to let go by; to let pass; to overlook; to miss
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
to expedite; to encourage; to spur (on)
to draw a line (between); to make a distinction (between); to distinguish (between)
established (certain) fact
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
to cross; to go across; to go through; to cut across
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove