curtain; bunting; act (in play)
seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)
care; looking after; trouble; bother; good offices; recommendation
not caring; not giving a damn
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
to say enough (as much as required); to say plenty; to say well; to say cleverly; to say often; to say frequently
speech; words; one's lines; remarks
(emotional) tension; anxiety; (highness of) spirits; (good) mood; tension; tensile strength
fifth day of the month; five days
to come into contact with; to touch (each other); to have a brush with
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
to hold in one's arms (e.g. a baby); to embrace; to have sex with; to make love to; to sit on (eggs); to brood
reality; actuality; hard fact
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan
colour; color; complexion; skin colour; look (on one's face); expression; appearance
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
aizuchi; back-channeling; interjections indicating that one is paying attention; two smiths hammering at an object in turn
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship
classification; categorization; sorting
creator (of a work); author; writer; artist; composer; playwright
to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)
don't worry about it; forget about it
pupil; disciple; adherent; follower; apprentice; young person
to inherit; to succeed; to take over
loveable; very likeable; like very much
like that; that way; thus
to knock down; to beat (someone) up; to injure (someone) so badly they cannot recover (esp. emotionally); to overwhelm (with mental anguish, etc.)
self-study; teaching oneself; studying by oneself (at school) while the teacher is absent
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
society; public; community; social studies