awareness of things around one; ability to understand what is going on around oneself; judgment; judgement; discretion
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
Second World War (1939-1945); World War II; WWII; WW2
east and west; Orient and Occident; East and West; ladies and gentlemen!; your attention, please!
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
senior high school; high school
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
East Germany (1949-1990); German Democratic Republic
connotation; comprehension; intension; inclusion; containment within
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
large number (of); many; majority
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
document; letter; writing; contents (e.g. of a letter)
inspection; reading; perusal; browsing (the web)
materials; data; document
to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
to exchange (messages, greetings, arguments, etc.); to intersect; to cross; ... with one another; ... to each other
anticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
to walk in on; to tread upon
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
to talk; to chat; to chatter
old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence
to overlook (a mistake, fault, etc.); to tolerate; to let pass; to give someone a break; to let someone off lightly; to be lenient
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
selection; choice; option
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to mislead; to misguide
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
second day of the month; two days
spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job); firing someone
careless; stupid; thoughtless; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
battle; fight; fighting; engagement; contest
vengeance; revenge; retaliation