check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base
feeling; mood; disposition; mental attitude; somewhat; slightly
fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence
chic; smart; understanding; considerate; familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)
all; wholly; entirely; completely; without exception
unenlightened; uneducated; ignorant
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan
reaction; recoil; kick; backlash
strange; unfamiliar; mysterious; suspicious; (lit.) of an unknown nature
to take away; to carry away
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
essential; substantial; substantive; intrinsic
having vague fears; feeling alarmed; feeling gloomy (about the future); feeling apprehension
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
the same; the said; likewise
what's what; heads or tails
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
one end; an end; part; fragment
other than; excluding; without
jack; knave; (electrical) jack; hijack; hijacking
manipulation of information; spin
trivial; not amounting to much; not a big deal
used (ticket, stamp, etc.); spent (fuel, battery, etc.)
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
every conceivable; every single; every possible; all kinds of
intensiveness; collecting; summarizing; putting together
silencing (e.g. machine); muffling; muting (e.g. TV)
mechanism; organization; organisation
to use as an intermediary; to worry; to mind; to care
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
stake; post; pile; (arch.) stump
unexpected; unscheduled; unforeseen; unplanned
unprecedented; unique; unparalleled
to pick out item(s) from a group to keep