education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
bitterness; distress; pain; bitterness and astringency
race (of people); type of person
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
allied nations; the Allies (World War I, World War II); Allied powers
strong nation; powerful country
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
essence; true nature; substance; reality
restoration; rehabilitation; recovery; recovery (from an illness); recuperation; convalescence
harmful insect; noxious insect; vermin; pest
watch-keeping; guard; lookout
reception (desk); information desk; receipt; acceptance
principle; aim; purport; gist; instructions; orders
upper floor; upstairs; top of the stairs
to get tired; to become exhausted; to become worn out; to become battered (from long use); to get tired of (doing); to get fed up with
mixture of wheat and chaff; mixture of the good and bad; jumble of wheat and tares
simply; merely; only; solely
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)
untraceable; long lost; one's whereabouts being unknown
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
trigger (of a gun, etc.); trigger (for something); immediate cause
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
laugh; laughter; smile; sneer; sex aids (e.g. dildos, pornographic books, erotic woodblock prints, etc.)
to be needed; to be wanted
to come around to do; to become inclined to do; to get excited about; to take an interest
to change completely; to switch (to); to shift (to another mode)
taking a long time; slowness; sluggishness; lack of firmness; looseness; slovenliness