ceremony; rite; ritual; service
influential; prominent; strong; likely; plausible
work; labor; achievement; performance; salary; income
ritual music and dancing in shrines and temples; rice dance; rice festival; tofu (or fish, etc.) baked and coated with miso; turning something in the manner one would use to cook dengaku-tofu on both sides
Buddhist temple; religious building; church; cathedral
Hyottoko; comical male character with puckered, skewed mouth; clown; ugly mug; ugly guy
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
poison; toxicant; harm; evil influence; ill will; spite
feelings; thoughts; meaning
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
negotiations; bargaining; dialogue; duet
fence; hedge; barrier; wall; railing
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
to bend; to crook; to lean; to tilt; to bend (the truth); to distort
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell
but then; although; though; reasonable; natural; just
to speak (of something); to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
from long ago; from old times; from time immemorial
foreign; imported; outpatient; outpatient care; outpatient clinic
pre-existing; already there; conventional
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
to rule; to govern; to administer
supporting role (actor); minor role
companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
specialization; specialisation; differentiation
of course; certainly; naturally
really; truly; indeed; good grief