wise; sensible; well-advised; intelligent; sagacious; prudent
reliable; trustworthy; hopeful; promising
where ... is concerned; when it becomes; if it becomes
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
to cut into (a conversation); to interject
urgent; pressing; exigent
to collect; to gather; to compile; to arrange; to settle
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
at the very beginning of one's speech; the first thing (one) says after opening the mouth
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
knowledge; awareness; consent; acceptance; forgiving; pardoning
now that; since; so long as; because
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
hateful; abominable; poor-looking; amazing; fantastic; admirable
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
carefree; free from worry
lump; mass; group; crowd; embodiment (of an idea, quality, feeling etc.); personification
shuddering; shivering; trembling; being horrified; being disgusted
knowing; (an) acquaintance
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
mental condition; state of mind; mentality
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
to knock down; to beat (someone) up; to injure (someone) so badly they cannot recover (esp. emotionally); to overwhelm (with mental anguish, etc.)
haggardness; emaciation; wasting away; being tired out; being worn out; exhaustion
greed; craving; desire; appetite; hunger; avarice
immediately; at once; instantly
leaving (a group, team, etc.)
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
blunder; slip; error; error
external; foreign (e.g. relations); public (e.g. image)
to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
stability; steadiness; equilibrium
coat (of hair or fur); lie of (dog's) hair; type; sort; lineage; breeding
to complain; to lodge a complaint
parroting back; repeating (something one was told) like a parrot
to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
one's share; one's portion
to discern (e.g. right from wrong); to discriminate; to distinguish; to know (manners, one's place, etc.); to understand; to bear in mind
impossible; unlikely; improbable