preparation; arrangements; getting ready; provision; setup; reserving
wash basin; wash bowl (incl. portable bowl in a public bath)
denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!
reaction; response; reaction
hesitation; indecision; vacillation
to take a bath; to have a bath; to take a shower
have to (verb); must (verb); is indispensable; absolutely necessary
condition; assumption; intention; intent; premise (in logic)
incomparable; cannot compare (with); beyond comparison; in another league
shock (psychological); crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; shock (physical, mechanical); shock (e.g. due to lack of blood flow); trauma
to try and do something; to attempt to do something
kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice
to dodge (e.g. a question); to evade; to sidestep; to give (someone) the slip
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
lack of appetite; anorexia
to behave like a spoiled child; to fawn on; to take advantage of; to presume upon (e.g. another's benevolence); to depend on
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
with a friendly grin; smilingly
Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd); gourd (container) made from its fruit
to sound; to ring; to resound; to echo; to roar; to rumble
numeral; figure; digit; numeric character
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; understanding (e.g. "please be understanding of the mess during our renovation"); noting; acceptance
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
chance; start; cue; excuse; motive; impetus
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
another time; some other time
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.