maintenance; preservation; improvement
to succeed; to bear fruit
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
superiority; predominance
securing; obtaining; ensuring; belay; belaying
judgment; judgement; divination; judgement
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
monitoring; watching; observation; surveillance; guarding; supervision
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
to loosen; to slacken; to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
on purpose; deliberately; intentionally
common knowledge; being well-known; making (something) well-known
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
of course; certainly; naturally
complimentary copy of a book
to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)
government official; clerk
use; application; employment; utilization; utilisation
permission; approval; authorization; to permit; to authorize
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
rather; better; instead; if anything
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow (a person); to accompany; to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
restriction; restraint; limitation; limit
to prepare; to provide; to set up; to establish; to organize
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
really; truly; indeed; good grief
no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
book; volume; this; present; main; head
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
figure; form; appearance; dress; state; condition
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind