expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
the number of people; many people; a large number of people; (counted as an) adult
to be too numerous; to be too much
hospitality; reception; treatment; (light) refreshment; entertaining with food and drink; treat
to be descended from; to be drawn from (the tradition of); to be derived from; to follow the school (tradition) of
entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining; immediately agreeing with someone else; pandering
apiece; each; at a time; piecemeal
to lower one's voice; to speak more softly
to place persons opposite; to come face to face with; to compare (with); to check (against); to match
to happen to have on hand or in stock
out of season; unseasonal
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; one's emotions; one's feelings; nervousness
self-centered; self-centred; selfish
arrogant; insolent; disdainful
crossing; passage; importing; import; wandering; wanderer; migration
if you think about it; come to think of it
fault; error; going poorly; being disadvantageous; un-; non-
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
in name only; figurehead; (only) by name
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)
to look around; to take a view of
appraisal; estimation; evaluation; setting prices
pure-bred (usu. animal); pure-blooded; thoroughbred
important place; strategic point; critical location
to entrust; to leave to a person
to raise (usu. one's shoulders, with a jaunty, swaggering effect)
heathen; heretic; pagan; nonconformist; freethinker; iconoclast
whichever one chooses; either way
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
to coagulate; to curdle; to be fanatical; to be obsessed with; to stiffen; to become stiff
fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown
to rise high (of water); to overflow; to swell; to be filled with (emotion, energy, etc.); to be bursting with; to be brimming with