to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather
import; importation; introduction; afferent
our country; our land; one's own country
peace and order; law and order
I fear that it's likely that; with all due respect
deed (esp. negative); act; action; one's doing
to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
second line of a four-line Chinese poem
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
individualism; egoism; selfishness
belief; faith; adherence; espousal
lip service; mere words; professions; lips; mouth; snout
detestable; abhorrent; loathsome
to understand; to appreciate; to interpret
belongings; appendage; accessory
derailment; digression; deviation
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
restraint; restriction; fetters; binding; confinement with rope
frog in a well; (fig.) someone with a narrow perspective
party; set; gang; company; person
shellfish; seashell; shell
be that as it may; even so; though that be so
tree frog (esp. the Japanese tree frog, Hyla japonica)
pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in
-less; lacking; non-existing
with bare hands; with or from nothing
(death from) starvation; starving to death
to jeer (at); to hoot; to boo; to catcall; to heckle
(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely
centralization (e.g. power); centralisation
advocate (of a theory or principle); ideologist; -ist (i.e. adherent to a belief system); (arch.) socialist; (arch.) communist
to do together; to share; to participate in