barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
forever; eternally; for good; as long as one likes; indefinitely; endlessly
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
control; management (e.g. of a business)
to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone); to entrust (to someone); to leave (to chance, one's imagination, etc.); to let (take its own course); to use (money, strength, spare time, etc.) to the full; to use freely
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
to point; to nominate; to select someone; to identify; to indicate; to play (a game of shogi)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
older brother; elder brother; brother (as older-brother figure in friendly and or work relationship); young man; buddy
to face; to go towards; to head towards
affection (esp. parental); love; fondness
citizen; resident; person; user (of a website, esp. as a collective, e.g. Twittersphere)
unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty
to bump into; to run into; to encounter; to meet with; to clash (of opinions, people, etc.); to conflict
losing one's position; losing one's standing; downfall; fall (from power); being overthrown
opportunity; chance; time; occasion
insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising
shallow thinking; imprudence; rashness; quick temper; short temper
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
to see without obstruction; to get an unobstructed view (of); to see into (someone's thoughts); to read (someone's feelings, intentions, etc.); to foresee; to predict
exclusion; removal; elimination; clearing away; getting rid of
but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess
ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly
to challenge to (a fight, game, etc.); to throw down the gauntlet; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to attempt; to pressure (someone) for sex; to make advances to
neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing
one's nature; one's feelings; plain; unadorned; mere; poor
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; extremely; to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be decided
query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry
how much; how many; to what extent
politics of fear; terrorism; reign of terror (esp. in the French revolution)
to spread out (e.g. a futon); to lay out; to lay down (e.g. a cushion); to impose widely (e.g. martial law); to promulgate; to pin down; to hold down
misgovernment; misrule; bad government
indeed; really; truly; very much
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
emperor; prince; princess
to weaken; to grow weak; to be downcast; to be dejected; to be troubled; to be at a loss
sacrifice; victim (esp. someone killed); casualty; sacrifice (to a deity)
to finish; to end; to have a result less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
useless; vain; aimless; idle
to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
afterwards; at a later time; later on; after some time