(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount
sincerity; true heart; devotion
matter being discussed (e.g. in a private conversation); it's not your business; it doesn't matter (to you); our side of the story (in contrast to another's version)
a (short) time; a while; one time (in the past); a period; (arch.) two-hour period
sauce; Worcestershire sauce
affinity; compatibility; chemistry (between people)
outstanding; excellent; exceptional; preeminence; distinction; extraordinariness
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
thread-sail filefish (Stephanolepis cirrhifer); skinning (an animal); stripping (a tree of its bark); barking
liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point
to mash; to grind; to pulverize; to dissipate (a fortune); to run through; to lose
base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
to lean (something) against; to set against; to prop up against
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
unmanageable child; spoiled child (spoilt); spoiled brat
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
to move (house); to transfer (department); to change the target of interest or concern; to elapse (passage of time); to be permeated by a colour or scent; to be infected
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy
way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression
to relax; to make oneself comfortable
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
to devise; to plot; to plan
practice; putting into practice; implementation; praxis (philosophy)
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
binding hand and foot; temporary feeling of paralysis; sleep paralysis; being tied down with money
much less; to say nothing of
from the viewpoint of; according to
extraordinary; preposterous; outrageous; absurd
to arrive at (after a struggle); to finally reach; to find one's way to; to finally hit on (e.g. an idea)
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
admirably; exquisitely; aptly
natural posture (esp. in judo); natural stance; natural attitude; relaxed manner; calm manner
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
to be faintly visible; to be barely visible
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk