art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
indicates the target of an activity; -ee (e.g. employee, examinee, trustee)
practitioner (of medicine, sorcery, fortune telling, etc.)
sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
to need; to call for; to require
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
vexatious; troublesome; complicated
to rebound; to recoil; to splash; to have a repercussion; to have a reciprocal effect
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
to weigh on one's mind; to bother one; to be interested (in); to be curious (about); to feel like (doing); to feel inclined to
(just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
beyond this point; from now on; after this
to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan
to make a mistake; to mess up; to make an error; to err
inner thoughts; real intention; at heart; deep down; inner center (centre)
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
to play a leading role; to play a central part
consequence; causal relationship; nexus
complex; complicated; intricate; mixed (feelings)
mesh-patterned; webbed; cancellous; cancellate; reticulate; reticulated
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment
to sum up; to summarize; to summarise
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
at first; in the beginning; originally
cause and effect; causality; karma; fate; unfortunate; unlucky
series; sequence; keiretsu (group); conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings; affiliated; subsidiary
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
to be able (to); to be possible (to)