first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
(mental) attitude; way of thinking; attention; care; prudence; intention
departure; leaving; going away; recession
spreading one's legs wide apart; straddle; long stride; big steps; thigh-scooping body drop
to leave; to depart; to take one's leave
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
sleeve; wing (of a stage, desk, gate, etc.)
to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul
tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pitiful
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
hundred points; perfect mark
to make noise; to make racket; to rustle; to swoosh; to make merry; to clamor; to clamour
to hear; to catch (the sound of something); to hear about (rumour, etc.); to overhear; to get used to hearing
woman; female; feminine gender
suffix for familiar person
in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances
young; youthful; immature; green; low (number); small
to exchange glances; to correspond; to counterbalance
fascinating; voluptuous; bewitching; captivating
here I am; I'm home!; presently; right away; right now
considerably; not a little; in no small numbers
the aforementioned; the said; (man, incident, etc.) in question; the usual
older sister; lass; young lady
introduction; presentation; referral; listing
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
boy; son; baby boy; young man
to concede one is entirely in the wrong (for the sake of argument)
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
to omit; to leave out; to overtake; to pass; to say; to speak
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
riding; ride; spread (of paints); -seater (e.g. two-seater); (getting into the) mood; (entering into the) spirit
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism; grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation
with a rustling sound; (rummaging) around
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve