engagement; betrothal; marriage contract
pregnancy; conception; gestation
postcard; memo; note; card
moving forward (e.g. vehicle); onward movement; advance (work, procedure, etc.); advancement; progress (of a disease); disease progression
to have a drink; to have a few drinks
shout; cry; outcry; yell; shriek; scream
standing in a group; standing up in unison
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
(ship or shipbuilding) timber or plank
care; looking after; repair; (police) raid; crackdown
horizontal shaking (of an earthquake); rolling (of a boat, aircraft, etc.); swaying
civilian clothes; plain clothes; mufti; plainclothes police officer
to run around trying to escape; to run from place to place
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
seven tenths; seventy percent; seven hundreds; seven percent
enough; sufficient; sufficiently; fully; division into ten
awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained
to throb (with pain); to ache; to smart; to rankle; to gall; to rile
to look stupid; to have a critical lack
shirt (undergarment); undershirt; singlet; shirt (outerwear; usu. with collar and buttons)
to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach
to set free; to let go; to release; to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to let get away
fall; crash (e.g. aircraft)
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping)
to shove to one side; to look at out of the corner of one's eyes
gazing steadily at; observing (a person) closely; maintain a watch over
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
to step aside; to move (i.e. out of the way); to make way
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
show; exhibition; spectacle
jitte; short truncheon with a hook made of metal or wood (used by policemen and private thief-takers in Edo Japan)