training; education; cultivation; making pottery and casting metal
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion
deadly serious; deadly earnest
to push aside; to brush or thrust aside; to remove; to get rid of
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can
advance warning; previous notice; announcement; herald; harbinger; forerunner
to be touching; to be moving
raw; uncooked; natural; as it is; unprotected (sex); live (i.e. not recorded); inexperienced
study; library; den; home office; reading room
or something; for instance ... (though there are other suitable options); ... or ...; as soon as; right after; while still
results; record; grades; marks
self-consciousness; self-awareness
retort; back talk; backchat
slapping; splashing; splatting; banging shut; flat (refusal, denial, etc.)
(unpleasant) state of affairs; predicament; mess
hostility; antagonism; opposition
murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
to detain; to check; to restrain
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
to be worn down; to be reduced
briskly with small steps; trotting
to comfort; to console; to amuse
to draw close to; to edge up to; to snuggle up to; to nestle close to; to cuddle with; to draw closer to
healing; soothing; therapy; comfort; solace
living thing; organism; creature; biology
originally; primarily; essentially; intrinsically; proper; rightful
equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent
troublesome; annoying; complicated
wholly (due to); entirely; solely; earnestly; intently; sincerely
to some extent; to a certain extent
certificate; certified document; (the) thumbs up; seal of approval; paper with signature of the shogun or lord
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that