alliance; aimag; league; administrative subdivision in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
zigzag-shaped paper streamer often used to adorn Shinto-related objects; hornbeam (deciduous tree in the birch family)
core; heart (of the matter); point; crux; kernel
numeral; figure; digit; numeric character
tongue; tongue-like object; clapper (of a bell); talon (of a lock)
to pick out item(s) from a group to keep
to go mad; to go crazy; to lose one's mind
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
absolute; complete; utter; pure; sheer
to put on (of clothing); (lit.) to put (arms) through sleeves
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
to push away; to push aside; to shove
north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind
to vomit; to throw up; to feel nauseated; to feel sick
to be mixed in with; to blend with
commuting to school; school commute
(not) at all; completely; utterly; very; extremely
elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself
to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided
(not) in any way; (not) at all; (none) whatsoever; what kind of
stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition
glass sphere; glass bead; glass marble
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
to make an appeal; to urge
being cleared (doubt, misgivings, etc.); being dispelled; melting away; melting (of ice)
incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling
severe; strict; tough; hard
assumption; supposition; hypothesis
agency; (attorney's) authority of representation
to be intolerable; to be unpardonable
later on; eventually; afterwards
what sort of; what kind of; what way
to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)
dealing with; coping with
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
fragment; scrap; piece; shred
to dig up and expose (a secret, hidden crime, etc.)