cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack
too (much); overly; excessively
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
top and bottom; high and low; going up and down; rising and falling; going and coming back; upper and lower classes; ruler and ruled
half; biracial person (esp. half-Japanese); person of mixed parentage; half (of a game); halfback; 9-hole half (of a round)
example; instance; precedent; custom; habit
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe
to pose as; to (successfully) impersonate; to pretend to be; to (completely) become; to (fully) turn into
to catch; to capture; to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street)
senior (at school, work, etc.); superior; elder; older person; predecessor
to mix; to stir; to blend
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration
foreigner (esp. a Westerner); gaijin; (arch.) outsider
extramarital sex; affair; fooling around; infidelity; wantonness; unfaithfulness
result; consequence; consequently; as a result; as a result of; following
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
half- (sibling by a different mother); paternal
memory; sense; experience
abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning
incompetence; laziness; worthlessness; good-for-nothing; loser; weakling
seducer; smooth talker; picking up women; hitting on women; moderate party; moderate
perhaps; maybe; perchance; by some chance; by any chance
joint; knuckle; tune; melody; node (of a plant stem); joint
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
to scoff; to laugh at; to make fun of; to ridicule; to jeer at
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
nevertheless; at any rate; even so; all things considered; be that as it may
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
to choose; to select; to pick (out)
mouth; lips; shape of the mouth; near an entrance; vicinity of an entrance
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely
for a while; for some time; for a period
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
every year; yearly; annually
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
candidate; contender; prospect; candidacy; candidature; nomination
some people; a number of people; several people; a few people
to squeeze; to wring out; to narrow down; to refine