to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
grace; favor; favour; blessing; benefit
near oneself; close to one; familiar
translation; deciphering; decoding; translation
applying (e.g. a technology); adoption
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
pleasant feeling; pleasant sensation; pleasure
devil; demon; Satan; the Devil; Māra; evil spirits or forces that hinder one's path to enlightenment
writing; composition; essay; sentence
largish; biggish; a little bit larger
wise saying; famous saying
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
to concern; to be related
article; news story; report; account
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to arrive at (a certain outcome); to come to; to end with
question; inquiry; enquiry
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
novel; original; new; innovative
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
insane; crazy; nuts; out of one's mind
bulletin board; display board; notice board; electronic bulletin board; BBS
thread (of execution); thread (on an Internet forum, mailing list, etc.); topic; conversation
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
to strike; to hit; to beat; to punch
to hold (an event); to give (a dinner, party, etc.); to feel (sensation, emotion, call of nature, etc.); to show signs of
jostling; milling about; crush; packed with (activities, products, etc.); teeming with; chock-full of
special; particular; peculiar; unique
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
to be mixed; to be blended with; to associate with; to mingle with; to join
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
extreme masochist; very masochistic