substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality
intonation; accent; modulation; inflection
to wash again; to reconsider
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
to use (in cooking); to mix (in)
identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin)
(giving) instruction; initiation
adversary; opposition; hostile forces
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
countermeasure; counter-measure
counterintelligence; counterespionage
languid; weary; listless; melancholy
disquieting; threatening; turbulent; restless; unsettled; disturbing
present continuous tense; present progressive form
to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention
progress; being under way
new face; newcomer; rookie; modern humans (from Cro-Magnon man onwards)
dullard; indecisive person
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
deep inside; innermost place
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
interior of the womb (of a pregnant woman); interior of the uterus; interior of a Buddhistic statue
to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing; to carry
man and horse; rider and horse; centaur
state-of-the-art; cutting-edge
ignition; catching fire; firing (e.g. gun); discharging
ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody
trial calculation; preliminary calculation; estimation
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
heading; headline; index; headword
group; (free) radical; counter for installed or mounted objects (e.g. stone lanterns, gravestones, satellites)
most suitable; optimum; optimal; best
solution (of an equation, inequality, etc.); root (e.g. of a polynomial); solution (to a given problem); answer; explanation; interpretation
to have something (likely) come to mind; to be reminded of something; to understand a point