to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind
short pause; short interval
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
exaltation; emotional uplift
to be silent; to say nothing
suddenly; abruptly; deliberately; slowly; gently
to swing; to wield (physically); to exercise (e.g. power, ability); to exhibit; to flourish; to prosper
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
off-focus (photography); out of focus; off the mark; off the point; irrelevant
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
birthplace; origin; cradle; motherland
reason; logic; method; system; order
memory; sense; experience
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
to overflow; to brim over; to flood
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
the world; the earth; this world (as opposed to heaven)
several minutes; a few minutes
hectic; bewildering; bustling; dizzy
marked; pronounced; showing a strong tendency (towards)
hollow; cavity; dent; depression
wings of the nose (i.e. nostril)
outer canthus; outer corner of the eye
to cast a shadow; to appear; to loom (of a threat, etc.); to manifest (of symptoms, etc.)
shadow; shade; shading; nuance; shades of meaning; subtleties
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi
high-rise building; tower block; skyscraper
background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)
1,000,000; one million; million; many
scale; scope; plan; structure
advanced (developed) country; advanced nations
all people; everybody; ten thousand people
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; tentative theory
to hint at; to intimate; to suggest; to allude to; to imply
a matter for speculation; only conjecture; just guesswork