residence; estate; grounds; premises; mansion
generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds
personal; individual; private
pressure; encouragement; urging; promoting
eldest daughter; first-born daughter
defense; defence; protection
human rights; civil liberties
to avoid; to refrain from; to shun; to detest
arrangement; preparations; search (by police)
extra-large; king-size; highest (priority, urgency, etc)
to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up
charm; incantation; spell; magic formula
natural accompaniment; inseparable pair; inevitable aspect (of something); part and parcel; supplementary printed insert (in a book or magazine); appendix
came here; coming here; recently
several times; once or twice
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
viewing as a problem; problematizing
to shut one's eyes to (one's own faults, etc.); to pretend not to see; to pay no attention to; to forget; to fail to notice; (lit.) to put on a shelf
to pull into; to draw in; to bring in; to win over
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
returning home to one's parents (orig. of a married person); visiting one's parents (for a prolonged period of stay); bride's first visit to her parents after getting married; coming back (of an item; after having been on loan, etc. abroad); (arch.) temporarily returning to one's home (of a servant)
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
integration; unification; unity; combination; consolidation; synthesis
to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours); to advance; to hasten (e.g. one's death); to quicken (e.g. one's step); to speed up; to accelerate
declaration of war; proclamation of war
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising
domestic discord; internal discord; internal strife; internal struggle; infighting
allied nations; the Allies (World War I, World War II); Allied powers
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence; pretense; (a customer) coming to restaurant, ryokan, etc. without a reservation or introduction
to have sparkling eyes; to have shining eyes; to have a gleam in one's eyes
closely contested constituency; highly competitive marketplace; (fig.) battleground
to face each other; to be opposite (to)
to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords
chewing; mastication; digestion (e.g. of words); assimilation; comprehension
(the) whole; as a whole; in general; at large
to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something
hurriedly; in a hurry; hastily; in haste