thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
all kinds of things; various things; large number of people
willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord
subtle; delicate; difficult; complex; doubtful; questionable
stubborn; obstinate; pigheaded
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
action; operation; effect; function
to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate
sense of smell; olfaction
the sixth sense; intuition; hunch
between (e.g. two people); face to face; hindrance; impediment; arrhythmic section of recitative in noh music; playing with only 2 players; prefix used for stress or emphasis
one turn; spinning around; complete change; reversal; (an) about-face
to make a fresh start; to turn over a new leaf; to call again; to visit again; to come again
to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand
to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with
bashfully; hesitantly; fidgety; restlessly; squirming; wriggling
making; producing; appearance (attire, make-up, etc.); build; physique; sashimi
elementary; basic; rudimentary
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
kind offices; services; through the good offices of; intercession; mediation
home area; home town; local
International System of Units; SI
at that time; in those days
business; trade; operations; sales
to imitate; to follow; to emulate
to be self-complacent; to be conceited; to flatter oneself; to be full of oneself
unflaggingly; steadily; untiringly; knocking; tapping; clicking
to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)
free (e.g. verse); atypical
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
to be slow; to not make progress; to be inefficient
in its entirety; whole; wholly