water supply; water service; channel; strait; water course; waterway
compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency
creation; production; creative work (novel, film, etc.); fabrication; fiction; invention
masterpiece; best work; amusing blunder; funny mistake; boner
writing; composition; essay; sentence
to cross over; to go across; to extend; to cover; to range
long (time); protracted; prolonged
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
complete devotion; body and soul; one's best
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
to happen to have on hand or in stock
to give one's name (as); to introduce oneself (as); to claim to be; to call oneself; to reveal oneself (as); to admit to being
readiness; preparedness; resolution; resignation
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
to answer; to fire back; to retort; to redo; to do over; to try again
punishment; judgement; judgment
while alive (e.g. I won't allow ... while I'm alive); as long as one lives
near; close; beside; vicinity; proximity; besides
cooperation; collaboration
complete; completion; perfection; accomplishment
to stay indoors; to be confined indoors
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
simply; merely; only; solely
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation