(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
doctor's degree; doctorate; PhD
the same; the said; likewise
off the mark; off base; misdirected; irrelevant
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
to be based on; to take into account; to build upon; to have one's feet firmly planted on; to plant oneself on
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
annotation; explanatory note; comment
symbol used as a placeholder (either because a number of other words could be used in that position, or because of censorship); certain; unnamed; undisclosed
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
banter; raillery; ridicule; teasing; making fun of
black joke; black comedy; morbid humor
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
calling by name; designation; nomination
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
(special) vocational school
overbearing; coercive; pushy; forcible; high-handed
to increase; to add to; to augment
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to wedge oneself into; to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
to perform; to do; to conduct oneself; to carry out
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
training; drill; practice; discipline
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
magician; wizard; sorcerer; witch
that's the way it is; such is life
magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
complementary; supplementary
electricity; (electric) light
action; operation; effect; function
to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)