close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)
capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); defeating (an opponent); attacking (a problem) strategically
iron wall; impregnable fortress; impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
to break; to smash; to defeat; to destroy; to eliminate
poor; meagre; meager; feeble; scanty; shabby
temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction
to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to
even; flat; level; calm; peaceful; uneventful
roundness; rotundity; mellowness; maturity
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
to charm; to attract; to fascinate; to entice
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
artificial product; man-made product; fiction; made-up story; decoration (e.g. for a festival); theatrical prop (esp. a large prop in noh or kyogen, e.g. tree, well, boat)
right or wrong; good or bad; quality; having both merits and demerits; having both advantages and disadvantages
to recognise; to recognize; to know by sight; to become acquainted with
in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically
underestimation; undervaluation
guarantee; security; assurance; pledge; warranty
to resound; to echo; to reverberate
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
each; (arch.) you (plural)
level; standard; level (plane); floor; spirit level; (surveyor's) level
setting up (a structure, building, camp, etc.); construction; preparation (e.g. of a venue); arrangement (of an event)
thereupon; shortly thereafter
healthy; robust; strong; solid; durable
synthetic fibre; synthetic fiber
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
skip (bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot); skipping (over); skip (captain of a curling team); skipper
to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)
to stop walking; to pause
ignoring; acting as if it is nothing
along; parallel to; in accordance with