strengthening; intensifying; reinforcement; enhancement; solidification
going around; patrol; round; tour
to quicken one's pace (steps)
and so; therefore; for that reason
to continue to work; to work away (at)
desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
to continue (going along some trend)
warm; mild; considerate; kind; warm (of a colour); mellow
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
dilution; watering down; inflation (of budget, claim, etc.); padding
all you want; as much as one wants
being used to ...; getting used to ...; being accustomed to; being conditioned to; be familiar with
shuriken; small throwing blade; throwing star
(private) investigation company; research agency
that road (path, street, way, etc.); that line (of business); that profession; love affairs; romance
freedom; free; open; unrestricted
one place; (all in) the same place; one spot; one location; one part; one passage
settlement; permanent residency
state; condition; the way things should be; ideal state; truth
offense and defense; offence and defence
carefully; attentively; profoundly; deeply; at length
for generations; hereditary; generation after generation
based on; built on; made from
night under the midnight sun; white night (at extreme latitudes); night during which the sun doesn't set
zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group
foreign company; overseas enterprise; overseas firm
round-up (e.g. of criminals); wholesale arrest; catching the whole herd with one throw
destruction; annihilation; devastation; catastrophe
(company) director; executive; top management; important post; role with heavy responsibilities
reading aloud; recitation
intracerebral; inside the brain; (occurring) in the mind; mental (e.g. image); imaginary
hope; white hope; person of promise
finally; at last; ultimately; in the end