mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for
to be flustered; to lose one's presence of mind
pattern; design; body build; figure; essential qualities; character
slide (for projection); transparency; (microscope) slide; to slide; to slip; to shift (e.g. a group of items in a schedule)
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
wedding hall; marriage hall; wedding place; wedding location
skin; body (in the context of intimate bodily contact); surface; grain (e.g. of wood); disposition; temperament
bits and pieces; frizzily (as in perm)
to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
group; party; team; squad; section
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
preparation; arrangements; getting ready; provision; setup; reserving
completion; conclusion; perfect (tense, form, aspect)
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed
suitcase; trunk; trunk (of a car); boot; (trunk) line
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved); Japanese bladed weapon
with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names
sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katana; scalpel; chisel; burin; knife money (knife-shaped commodity money used in ancient China)
dangerous; unsettled; troubled; disturbed; insecure
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
back; rear; background; behind the scenes
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
with a start; in surprise; suddenly (realize, remember, etc.); all of a sudden; puffing (air); with a puff
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
to have one's knees be about to give way
after having come this far; now that we've come this far
well then ...; in that situation; in which case
quick pace; quick steps; quick march; trot (horse gait)
slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)
suffix indicating room size (following a number of tatami mats and a counter)
footpath; walkway; sidewalk
to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to become complicated
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
unobstructed view; perspective; forecast; outlook; insight; foresight
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)