total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
one-by-one; separately; in detail
sounding; probing; probe; stylet; spy
frost; white hair; grey hair; gray hair
entrance door; front door; gateway (to a region, etc.)
to rule; to govern; to administer
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
dirt floor; room with dirt floor; pit (theater seating); parterre
grave; sad; mournful; sorrowful; pensive
meditation; contemplation
to indulge in; to give oneself up to; to be obsessed by; to be engrossed in; to be lost in; to be absorbed in
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
imbalance; disproportion; disparity; mismatch; asymmetry
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
to change one's place of residence; to migrate; to move
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
to smoke; to breathe in; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
in comparison to; rather than
deviation; departure; omission
readiness; preparedness; resolution; resignation
municipality; local government; self-governing body; autonomous body
trade association; craft; guild
to take all things together; to include everything; to take account of everything
to be rich in; to abound in; to be abundant in; to be rich; to be wealthy
unapprovable; unable to be confirmed
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
to lose (through death) (e.g. wife, child)
end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)
face; looks; vestiges; trace
to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine
to insert; to put in; to have a griping pain; to flow in; to shine in
suddenly; casually; accidentally; incidentally; unexpectedly; unintentionally
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension