completeness in both (e.g. loyalty and filial piety, study and sports); advantageous to both sides
sleeve; wing (of a stage, desk, gate, etc.)
evasion; excuse; subterfuge; runaround
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
to bury; to inter; to entomb; to cover up; to hush up; to shelve
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
unpleasant; disagreeable; abominable; unlucky; inauspicious; ominous
carved seal; engraved stamp; to engrave (a seal); to carve; to make an impression (with a seal)
irony; sarcasm; unexpected; different from what one expected; (only) surface; something superficial
a few years ago; some years back
to get to know each other; to make acquaintance
nth generation; nth (person to occupy a position, e.g. president)
to hand over; to transfer; to give up (e.g. one's seat); to give way; to yield; to concede
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
(giving) instruction; initiation
to produce (e.g. movie, play, show, event, musical recording, etc.); to design (e.g. new commercial product, restaurant concept, etc.); to create; production; creation; design
to handle; to manage; to deal with; to rear; to look after
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
to surprise; to frighten; to create a stir
that is to say; so that means
circuitous; roundabout; indirect
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
to perform the last rites over the deceased; to give someone their final notice (e.g. when firing them); to give someone the final word
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten
secret passage; underground passage; loophole; hole one can go through; opening
car; automobile; vehicle; wheel
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.
company; corporation; workplace
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
program name (television); program identification
to grasp at straws; to resort to desperate measures
central stalk of a dried rice plant
millionaire; one's superior; one's elder; (arch.) virtuous and gentle person; (arch.) female owner of a whorehouse in a post town; (arch.) chief of a post town
character; personality; (fictional) character; letter; character
to use properly; to use (different things) for different purposes
shot; charge; blow; punch; home run; try
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
chair; stool; post; office; position
battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest