retention; maintenance; preservation
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
to creep about; to crawl around
odour; odor; scent; aura; whiff; smacks of ...
to instigate; to tempt; to entice; to incite
to bend; to wind; to twist; to zig-zag
unity; consolidation; uniformity; unification; compatible
substance; real form; main part; main unit; this machine; this appliance; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate
race (of people); type of person
beginning; start; first (in line, etc.); origin; such as ...; not to mention ...
personal; individual; private
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
incomplete understanding; doubt; question; distrust; suspicion; strangeness
appearance; figure; shape; form
out of range; outside the limits (of...); outside (a) range; outside the scope
beginning; outset; first; onset
cruel; merciless; atrocious; pitiful; tragic; horrible
(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount
to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through
since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while
being filled with; being full of; permeation
slightly; lightly; thinly; faintly; dimly
worn-out; ragged; crumbling; dry and crumbly; falling (in drops or clumps); scattering
to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time
bell (often a large hanging bell); chime
to step back; to walk backwards
to become clear; to be made public
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
isolation; separation; remoteness; seclusion; reclusion; inaccessibility
to pull into; to draw in; to bring in; to win over
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
law; act; method; mood; dharma; law
establishment; settlement
intoxication; being carried away by; being enraptured by
feeling; sensation; emotion; interjection
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state