promotion; encouragement; fostering; unwanted help (usu. unintentionally harmful); unnecessary help
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
typical; representative; archetypal; quintessential; stereotypical; model
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best
imitating; copying; mimicry; behavior; behaviour; action
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
such; this sort of; like this
that's the way it is; such is life
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
uninterested; unconcerned; plain; light; flowing gently
to look at; to gaze; to stare at
apathy; indifference; listlessness; athymia
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
because of; on account of; regarding; per; apiece
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
at present; currently; so far; for now; for the time being
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
rail (track); (curtain) rail; track (for a sliding door); groundwork; spadework
faithful; devoted; loyal; honest; true
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
quite capable of ...; could happen; not unlikely to
situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
development; growth; development (of a situation, story, etc.); advancement; playing around; having an active sex life
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
quick; speedy; prompt; rapid; swift
private; confidential; informal; secret; (within the) family circle; (on the) inside