supply route; supply road; communications (military)
to soothe; to calm; to pacify
second day of the month; two days
thicket; coppice; brushwood
to form a line; to queue up; to line up
hypothesis; supposition; assumption
scarecrow; figurehead; dummy
squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae); Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby
severely beaten up; repeatedly punched and kicked; thoroughly defeated; attacked relentlessly (with words); fiercely criticised; bombarded with verbal abuse
decisive defeat; rout; thrashing; losing big
most of all; extremely; supremely
to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby); to take upon oneself; to be saddled with
gotcha; alrighty; got it; OK
10,000,000,000; ten billion
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game
here and there; in places
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn; to pretend; to feign; to affect
to become numb; to go to sleep (e.g. a limb); to get an electric shock; to tingle (from an electric shock); to be excited; to be titillated
on the contrary; far from it; if anything; in fact; instead
knot; tying; bundle; lumping; conclusion; ending
dried sardines (held together by a bamboo skewer or string piercing the eye sockets)
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
to make good one's escape; to get away; to outrun; to hold on (and win); to win narrowly
mountain stream; mountain torrent
series (of something); range (e.g. of mountains)
to divide; to separate; to share; to distribute; to distinguish
ideal; perfect; most suitable; just right
capture; seizure; prehension; apprehension; understanding; grasp
to bend many times; to turn and twist; to zigzag
going through; going via; going by way of
ambush; lying in wait for an ambush