advance payment; money paid in advance
to embezzle; to misappropriate; to peculate; to accustom oneself to using; to use for a long time
slowly; tardily; complaining; grumbling; unsettled (e.g. weather); loose
This isn't over; I will get my revenge
to hear a rumor; to get wind of
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
threatening letter; intimidating letter
resolution; vote; decision
bitter (e.g. criticism); sharp; biting; severe; scathing; harsh
destined; predestined; fated; fateful
plural; multiple; several
domestic; domestically-produced; produced within a country
foreign (product, esp. agricultural); of foreign manufacture
crafty; tricky; sly; sinister (look)
calculating; mercenary; closefisted
stingy; mean; narrow-minded; petty; shabby; poor
refreshing; exhilarating; invigorating; bracing
rhyming game; play on words; pun
counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
mysterious; bewitching; alluring; enticing; enchanting
curse; spell; malediction
aphorism; epigram; witticism; bon mots
university (college) professor
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
bomb; alcohol with liquor added (esp. wine-based shōchū highball, also beer with whiskey)
explosion; rupture; break off
to screw; to twist; to distort; to parody; to torture; to wrest
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
to hint; to insinuate; to satirize; to satirise
separatists; secessionists
successive generations; successive emperors