mixture; blending; complication; crossing; intersecting; interlacing
worth; merit; value; good point; redeeming feature; saving grace
fashion designer; couturier
movie director; film director
impostor; imposter; pretender; liar
poor-quality; low-quality; shoddy; low-grade
twelve; 12; queen (playing card)
penalty; sentence; punishment
growing thickly; growing densely
rocky area; rocky tract; rocky stretch (of a climb); wall (of rock)
to rub; to chafe; to wear out; to become worn; to lose one's innocence; to become sly
weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance
curry (esp. Japanese curry); rice and curry
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
salon; saloon; sarong; saron (instrument)
to stay on (e.g. at one's friends house); to remain in the same neighborhood
remodeling; remodelling; restructuring; modding
focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
loose (of clothing); baggy; flabby; saggy; sloshing; slopping
underpants; pants; briefs; trousers (esp. women's); jodhpurs; breeches
departure; setting off; being used up; being consumed; passage of time; lapse; rehearsal
talking while standing; standing around talking
Spanish food; Spanish cooking
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
fry; juvenile fish; fingerling
therefore; consequently; accordingly; for that reason