sudden drop; sharp fall; nosedive; swoop
fulfillment; fulfilment; realization; realisation; completion
fulfilment of a vow; one's earnest prayer being answered
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
angle; square; cube; bishop; third degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Chinese "horn" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); jiao (monetary unit of China; one-tenth of a yuan)
to twist; to turn; to writhe (e.g. in pain); to twist around; to turn in one's seat
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
to devour; to bite to death
to bare one's fangs; to snarl (at)
ingenuity; resourcefulness
to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other
fortuitous; luck; windfall; godsend; good fortune
countermeasure; counter-measure
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
ironically enough; as irony would have it; in a nice little twist
four corners; four ordinal directions
speck; dot; point; only a little; particle; only one
left side; left-hand side
terminus; last stop (e.g. train)
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
to refuse; to reject; to decline; to prevent (from doing); to deny (e.g. access); to block
cool-headed; level-headed; hard-headed
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
as before; as ever; as it was originally
normally; ordinarily; by anyone's standards; by normal standards; without any issues; without any difficulty
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
non-fruit-bearing flower; something that is flashy with no content
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
blunder; slip; error; error
to bend; to curve; to turn; to be awry; to be askew
to run along; to run beside; to follow (a policy, plan, etc.); to act in accordance with; to meet (wishes, expectations, etc.); to satisfy
clockwise rotation; CW; right-handed rotation
no sooner ... than ...; hardly ... when ...; as soon as
paradise; heaven; Kingdom of Heaven