preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
nothing but; none other than
relation; relative; kind; cordial
to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
the same kind; accomplice; partner
affinity; feeling of closeness (with someone); feeling of kinship
to well (up); to gush forth (of water); to appear (esp. suddenly) (sweat, tears, etc.); to feel emotions from (joy, bravery, etc.); to hatch (esp. of parasitic insects, etc.)
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
to meet fortuitously (e.g. running into an old friend); to meet by chance; to happen across
together; jointly; at the same time; with; both
single; solo; solitary; just one; only one
treason; treachery; mutiny; rebellion; insurrection
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
superscription (on a letter, parcel, etc.); address; overwriting (data, file, etc.)
straight; straightforward; direct; neat (e.g. spirits); black (e.g. tea, coffee); entering university directly from high school; fast ball
remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
double suicide; lovers' suicide
horizontally; flat; across; crossways; crosswise
regret; chagrin; mortification; freedom from obstructive thoughts
printing (e.g. photos); glazing; enamelling; baking
plan; scheme; plot; design; project; intention
imperfect; incomplete; faulty; defective
simple; plain; uncomplicated; straightforward; simple-minded; naive
a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course
already; now; no longer; not any more
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
blink (of eyes); wink; twinkling (of stars); flicker (of light); blink (of light)
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
capacity; volume; capacitance
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to exchange glances; to correspond; to counterbalance
to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded
failed creative work; flop; dud; bomb
birth; creation; formation
oh!; ah!; oh dear!; good grief!; dear me!; thank God!
same feeling; same sentiment; same opinion; sympathy; agreement; concurrence
stuffing; packing; end (esp. the foot of a bridge); lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; tea master; endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); sweet eel sauce
impossible; unlikely; improbable
oversight; omission; something overlooked; thing left unnoticed
the person concerned; the person in question; the said person