manner; demeanour; demeanor; bearing
soft; tender; gentle; mild; light (topic, book, etc.); informal
unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy
weak (constitution); sickly; feeble; in poor health
carpenter's square; instigation; suggestion; metal wire with a prop animal (e.g. butterfly, bird) attached to the end; rod used to control the arm of a puppet (in bunraku)
to build up; to complete; to construct; to make up; to fabricate; to invent
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
troubled face; worried expression
truth or falsehood; genuineness; authenticity; veracity
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; progeny; offspring; paternal blood; lineage; sperm
to bud; to sprout; to develop (of talents, feelings, etc.); to awaken
to hesitate to say; to mumble; to hem and haw; to falter
support; help; backing; covering (from enemy attack); protection
search (esp. for someone or something missing); manhunt; legally authorized search of a person, building, etc.
report; notification; registration
to chuckle to oneself; to gloat (over)
to sow; to plant; to sow (the seeds of; e.g. conflict); to sprinkle (gold or silver powder on lacquerware)
kind; sort; species; species
to put together; to combine; to join together; to match against (e.g. in a sport)
face; honour; honor; appearance; look
to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)
establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation
appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy
silence; stillness; quietness
to harden; to solidify; to become firm; to become certain; to gather (together); to assemble
to just appear; to be half out; to be on the tip of one's tongue
violent emotion; passion; fury
to accept (e.g. an explanation); to be satisfied (with); to assent (to)
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
doubt; misgivings; distrust; suspicion
planting; planting out; transplanting
even if not; even without
doubt; suspicion; misgivings; scruples
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
to come to nothing; to be spoiled; to be spoilt
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
venting one's anger (on someone or something); taking out one's anger on
hateful; detestable; loathsome
regulation; adjustment; control
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
dumbfounded; overcome with surprise; in blank amazement; in a daze
notice; attention; observation