safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; acceptable; passable; satisfactory
capture; seizure; prehension; apprehension; understanding; grasp
every evening; night after night
rumbling; (ringing) cadence
distortion; falsification; perversion
bold move (in sumo, judo, etc.); daring move; powerful technique
to tear; to rip up; to cut up; to cleave; to forcibly separate (e.g. two lovers); (arch.) to have a tattoo in the corner of one's eye
to run out of breath; to be short of breath; to run out of steam; to be unable to continue; to die
physical weariness; sense of fatigue; washed-out feeling
since one's birth; in one's whole life; all one's life
low-ranking soldier; graduation; moving on (from); outgrowing (something); low-ranking samurai (1870-1872); death (of a noble, etc.)
wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising
capitulation; surrender; submission; yield
gauge; standard; length; size; (measuring) rule; scale
transfiguration; transformation; change of appearance
cold reception; unwelcoming treatment
unbroken; uninterrupted; on and on; continuous
same quality; same nature; homogeneous
assimilation; absorption; adaptation; assimilation; anabolism; assimilation (phonology)
to rendezvous; to meet at a prearranged place and time; to arrange to meet
suddenly; all of a sudden; abruptly
innermost depths of one's heart
cherry blossom (colour, color)
along the road; along the way
confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter
not understanding; not knowing
foundation; basis; bedrock; substrate (circuit board)
slightly heavy; a little heavy
outline; summary; overview; synopsis; abstract; abridgment