street; quarter; district; area
ignominious defeat; crushing failure; utterly beaten; overwhelming defeat
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
outside ...; beyond ...; not included in ...
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
to kneel (in respect); to genuflect
to bare one's fangs; to snarl (at)
to praise extravagantly; to lionize; to lionise; to make much of
to be born; to come into the world
root (of a plant); root (of a tooth, hair, etc.); center (of a pimple, etc.); root (of all evil, etc.); source; one's true nature
to cut up; to split open; to rip to pieces; to tear to pieces
you could say; you might say; verging on the
being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); responding to kindness with resentment; thinking ill of someone who meant to be kind; unjustified resentment; unreasonable grudge
what kind of thing; anything (else); nothing (but)
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
distance; range; difference (e.g. in opinion); gap; metric
invisibly; secretly; privately
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
deployment; disposition; posting; stationing
shelter; cover; screen; shield; obstruction; defilade
good; fine; excellent; favorable; favourable; satisfactory
seeing (with the naked eye); observation; visual inspection
to launch a surprise attack
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
to find (after searching everywhere); to locate; to discover
lizard; skink lizard (Scincidae spp.)
to dig; to excavate; to delve into; to dig up (vegetables, treasure, etc.); to mine (coal, ore, etc.); to top
nest; rookery; den; haunt; (spider's) web
to live (on, by, etc.); to lead a life; to make a living; to earn a livelihood; to spend one's time (doing); to pass one's days (doing)
ecology; life and habits (of an animal); mode of life; way of living
to take pains; to take time for someone; to do work for someone; to go to trouble for someone
to grant someone's request; to do a favour
in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing
as one had hoped; as one wishes
to burrow through; to dig through
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to defend oneself; to protect oneself
nest-building; making a hive, web, den, etc.
to be extremely cautious; to be as sure as sure can be; to make assurance doubly sure
shallow; superficial; slight (wound); light (sleep); short (time); early
to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around