good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
headquarters; head office; main office
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward
to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
I've heard that ...; rumour has it that ...; it appears as if ...
impudent; shameless; brazen
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
while; even though; despite
gate; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; division; phylum; counter for cannons
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
dirty; filthy; disordered; messy; indecent (language, etc.); dirty
busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
door; gate; opening; title page
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money)
very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best
a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
sudden; abrupt; urgent; pressing; steep; sharp; rapid
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
to overlook (a mistake, fault, etc.); to tolerate; to let pass; to give someone a break; to let someone off lightly; to be lenient
receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
order of chivalry; chivalric order
to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
swordsman; swordswoman; fencer
death; mortality; to die; to pass away
leader of a delegation (body, party)