in one go; in one gulp; in one breath; suddenly; all of a sudden; all at once
rumbling; (ringing) cadence
dark clouds; threatening signs; ominous indications
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
young girl; lass; adolescent female
to decline (of morals, character, etc.); to become vulgar (e.g. of a conversation); to stoop (to); to be ruined; to go under; to fall (into hell)
to rain incessantly; to downpour
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
natural disaster; natural calamity; act of God
heaven and earth; top and bottom
to crush; to squash; to flatten; to quash (a plan, opposition, etc.); to crush; to suppress
largest class; top category
bold move (in sumo, judo, etc.); daring move; powerful technique
curtain; act (in a play); falling of the curtain; end (of a scene); end; close; case
to open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to open (for business, etc.); to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out
what's in one's heart; one's emotional state; what one feels
blackened; black-painted; black-lacquered; blackened thing
outside world; physical world
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
suspicion (of having committed a crime, wrongdoing)
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
cheating; deception; trickery; manipulation; juggling; falsifying
tricking someone (into confirming or revealing the truth)
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune
to act timid; to show diffidence; to be hesitant; to appear embarrassed; to look ashamed
to draw a bow; to oppose; to defy; to disobey one's superiors
to include (in a group or scope); to instruct; to make one understand; to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication); to put in (someone's) mouth
pitch-black; jet-black; strongly tanned; deeply sunburnt; sooty; black with dirt
sound judgment; sane decision; act performed with a clear mind
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
collaborator; cooperator; coworker; ally
fastidiousness; love of cleanliness; uprightness; integrity; scrupulousness
torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); (speak) eloquently; fluently; flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times
decrease; reduction; decline
power relations; balance of power (between)
only recently; just of late
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
results (of a study or investigation)
self-evident truth; obvious fact; truism; axiom
even so; anyhow; at any rate
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; (good) idea; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response