to gradually disappear; to be vanishing
to mow; to reap; to harvest
waste; scrap; garbage; scum; piece of trash; loser
yearning; longing; aspiration; adoration; admiration
arrogance; haughtiness; conceitedness
to slip out; to steal out; to excel; to stand out
reason; logic; sense; truth; right
to impose; to visit upon; to inflict
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
magnetization; magnetisation
(an) exile; vagrant; wanderer; nomad
Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style)
samurai; person of extensive learning; person of great culture; person of superior social standing
to happen to meet; to come across
military forces; hosts; troops
to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to outweigh; to preponderate
that kind; competition; match
negotiations; bargaining; talks; making demands
to drive into; to ride into; to extend (a railway line, bus route, etc.) into; to link (a railway line) with; to join up with (a separate line)
term; period; time frame; time limit; deadline; cutoff (date)
beforehand; in advance; previously
tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); disposal (e.g. weaponry); annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling)
young nobleman; scion of a noble family; princely young man; man with an aristocratic air
dramatic pose; grand gesture; grandstanding
infinity; infinitude; eternity; infinite; limitless
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off
to coax; to cajole; to wheedle; to roll up and put into (something); to bundle up
miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic
to pierce; to penetrate; to be infected (with vice); to be steeped (with prejudice); to feel keenly; to make a deep impression
plectrum; pick; drumstick for Japanese drums (e.g. taiko)
dense (e.g. fog, dust, etc.); thick; vague (as in being unable to think clearly); dim
dangling; hanging; suspended; pending; half done; in limbo
family; members of a family
to collect; to gather; to compile; to arrange; to settle
September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
twenty-fourth day of the month; twenty-four days