to urge; to encourage; to press; to stimulate (e.g. growth); to hasten (e.g. development); to quicken
chair; stool; post; office; position
wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
to bite (at); to snap at; to snap at (someone); to flare up at; to jump down (someone's) throat
such; this sort of; like this
essential; important; crucial; vital; main
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
ownership; dominion; ownership rights; proprietorship; property rights
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
what; so-and-so; such and such; what?; wait; well, well
attaching the polite suffix "-sama" to somebody's name (more polite than "-san")
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
planning; scheming; maneuvering; manoeuvring
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
with a click; with a snap; ornamental clip (hair, obi, etc.)
love triangle; eternal triangle
fellow women; between women; among women; woman-to-woman
fighting scene; scene of carnage (bloodshed); location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra; difficulties (in a love relationship); crunch time (esp. for cartoonists)
isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on
noon; midday; daytime; lunch
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
daytime television serial; soap opera
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
mud; slush; (wet) dirt; thief
human relations; personal relationships
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
masterpiece; best work; amusing blunder; funny mistake; boner
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to be mixed; to be blended with; to associate with; to mingle with; to join
self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)
safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; acceptable; passable; satisfactory
amiability; friendliness; fondness (of someone); affection; compliments; civilities
lack; absence; shortage; deficiency; privation
cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool (i.e. fashionable, attractive, etc.); course (of medical treatment); season (series) of a television program (usu. 13 installments over a 3-month period)