harmless to humans and animals; having no influence; unimportant; insignificant
insurance payout; insurance money
sham marriage; fake marriage
kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)
inborn nature; genuine; intrinsic; essential
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
to cajole; to deceive; to seduce
teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
marriage fraud; fake marriage
wiles; sinister design; trick; conspiracy; intrigue
reliance; trust; faith; confidence
too-good-to-be-true offers (e.g. scams and frauds); too-good-to-be-true stories
to devour; to bite to death
negligence; carelessness; inattention; unpreparedness
to whirl; to eddy; to be all jumbled together (feelings, thoughts, etc.); to surge; to sweep
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
to grow weak; to become weak; to lose strength
bursting out (laughter); breaking out (applause); in a rush; in a surge; suddenly; all of a sudden
to act suspiciously; to behave in a strange way
to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)
conspiracy; collusion; complicity
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
all one has; all one's possessions
survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; (lit.) the weak are meat the strong do eat
with a snap; (break) cleanly; (rejecting) sternly; flatly; smartly; (dressing up) well
suspicion will raise bogies; once you suspect something, everything else will look suspicious; jumping at shadows
nothing more ... than this; as ... as it could possibly be
to relax; to make oneself comfortable
going up in flames; destruction by fire (esp. of a large building); stirring up a storm of criticism online (of an article, tweet, statement, etc.); becoming the target of an Internet pitchfork mob
unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom
insane; crazy; nuts; out of one's mind
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
gap; difference; disparity; discrepancy