costume; fancy dress; masquerade; converted (cruiser)
mass meeting; convention; tournament; competition; grand event
January; first month of the lunar calendar
impact; shock; impulse; (psychological) shock
passing each other; missing (meeting) each other; failing to meet; (being at) cross purposes; discrepancy
activity (esp. energetic or successful); great efforts; active participation; walking about with great vigor
to make merry; to frolic; to be in high spirits
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
personal; individual; private
to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy
by no means; never!; certainly (not); surely (not); something unexpected; emergency
eldest daughter; first-born daughter
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
detection (of a plot, fraud, etc.); discovery; coming to light; being uncovered
point of tangency; point of contact; (electrical) contact; point of contact (between); connection
not limited to; not just ...
each place; various places
to find; to discover; to come across; to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
invincible; unrivaled; unrivalled; matchless; unbeatable; undefeatable
elder sister; effeminate man
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
public holiday; celebration (of)
cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding; to appear on the cover of a magazine
library; book collection; paperback book
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
commemoration; celebration; remembrance; memento; souvenir; keepsake
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
since; henceforth; ever since
spotlight; close observation
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)