high praise; great admiration; rave reviews
to be discouraged; to shrink from
Spam (trademarked luncheon meat, made mostly from ham); spam (unsolicited email messages)
row; line; company (of someone); group; sequence; counter for rows
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
author; writer; novelist; artist
reply (e.g. email, fax, letter); answer
comfort; consolation; diversion
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
in history; ever; historical
guess; speculation; supposition
billboard; advertising sign
else; in addition; on top of that; furthermore; further; besides
industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation
worship; adoration; admiration; cult
to be on the verge; to be on the brink; to get close
rights to usage of one's likeness
infringement; violation; invasion; encroachment; trespass
exorbitant; outrageous; ridiculous; absurd; excessive; inordinate
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
sometimes; at intervals; occasionally; on occasion; from time to time
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
science; learning; scholarship; arts and sciences; academic pursuits
reconciliation of interests; settlement of interests
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
looking on (somebody) as hostile
foil; (gold, etc.) leaf; prestige