1. plain
I think a plain dress will look more elegant than a patterned one.
Soba is made of buckwheat flour, and udon and kishimen are made of plain wheat flour.
Most of the plain, simple, everyday things he desires can be secured by people of average means.
Plenty of stalls selling fried rattlesnake, rattlesnake kebabs, barbecued rattler, or just plain baked rattlesnake.
plain furnishing
Plain English is a shortcut to the goal of language learning.
Your opinion is off the mark. That's plain to anyone.
The spacious plain spread as far as the eye can see, dotted with groves here and there.
A nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik.
At no time does the plain look so perfect as in early autumn.
I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished.
Ms. Yamada translated the fascinating fairy tale into plain Japanese.
Stracciatella ice-cream is nothing but a plain ice-cream with chocolate chips.
Please ensure you always include a link-back in your replies. ">>" in plain ASCII + number (e.g. >>1).
Her clothes were old and dirty, and she wore a tight, plain cap over her beautiful blonde hair.
2. level
Governments usually resort to price control when inflation has reached a certain level.
Hospital was leveled.
Everyone knows on one level or another what is right and what is wrong; some pretend they don't.
Certainly there are inequalities in level of education even within a generation, but there have been no visible inequities between machines and materials in recent years.
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilisation than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
Essentially it's a one-to-one match, but the content of that match is a level so high as to be unthinkable to an ordinary person.
First of all, the level of the ocean could rise, because ocean water expands as it grows warmer.
On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.
It's very easy to drink potato shochu now that the potato-like smell has been reduced to a low level through use of the latest biotechnology.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency upped the level of the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from level 5 to level 7.
The Department of Homeland Security's primary function is the prevention of terrorist attacks occurring within America and, in the extreme case of an attack happening, holding losses to the smallest possible level and swiftly carrying out restoration.
He sees any easiness as a threat to his masculinity, so he always starts games on hard mode and ends up stuck on the first level for days.
On a fundamental level, the 12 forms of the Chinese zodiac are related to animal worship.
It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).
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