peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
10,000; ten thousand; 10^4
cause; seed; variety; kind; counter for varieties
living thing; organism; creature; biology
extinction; extermination; eradication; stamping out; wiping out
to be on the verge of; to be about to; to be on the point of
acceleration; speeding up
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
definite; final; decisive; conclusive
crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift
job offer; letter of appointment; appointment letter; notification of appointment
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to trap (into a difficult situation); to put (in a fix); to capture (a castle, fortress, etc.); to take; to drop (something) into
to be consistent; to be coherent
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
change of job; change of occupation; career change
to do over again; to redo; to start over; to remake; to resume; to recommence
(starting) from nothing; from scratch
crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility
to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)
to experience (something unpleasant); to go through; to suffer
my goodness!; good lord!; holy cow!
abhorrent; abominable; detestable; ominous; inauspicious; unlucky
to get close; to cuddle close together; to nestle close to; to snuggle up to
to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for
violation; offense; offence; breach; transgression; infringement
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by
... years old; age (of) ...
report; notification; tip; message (in information and communication theory)
sincere; earnest; serious
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
atonement (for one's sins); expiation; making amends; making up for (a misdeed)
discussion; talk; tête-à-tête; conference
bad condition; poor condition; disorder; failure; rupture; breakdown (e.g. of negotiations)
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
person in charge (including a supervisory role for other staff); person responsible for ...; responsible party; supervisor; manager
to keep (something) a secret; to keep hidden (forever); to continue to conceal
no chance of; no way that; certainly not; will never happen
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess