equality; equal; same rights; same rank; equivalence
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
unexpected; unforeseen; strange
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing; to carry
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve
gradually; steadily; slowly; little by little; step by step; by degrees
to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished
respiratory tract; air duct
to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up
air sac (birds, insects, etc.); gasbag (airship); envelope
something like ...; something called ...
to base something on; to make something the basis
technique; art; skill; move
reason; cause; circumstances
oxygen deficiency; oxygen shortage; lack of oxygen
to finish off; to ensure (something) is dead; to put an end to; to deliver the final blow; to be the best for A
standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; joseki (in go); standard sequence (esp. in a corner); standard move
when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
ten-day period (in a month); ten-year period (in one's age); decade
third month of the lunar calendar; (arch.) thick growth (of grass, etc.); Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE); Yayoi culture
dubious; puzzled; suspicious
to disappear; to vanish; to go; to leave; to die
or something; or something like that; or words to that effect; something or other
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
disease; ailment; illness
conviction; belief; confidence
originally; primarily; essentially; intrinsically; proper; rightful
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
inborn; innate; inherent; a priori
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it
innocent; chaste; naive; pure; unmixed; genuine
being declared the winner of a bout
heart disease; heart trouble; cardiopathy
murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post
(some type of) enthusiast; somebody possessed of a (certain kind of) mental abnormality
very; extremely; terrible; horrid; remarkable; extraordinary