(social) position; status
stripping (of rights, office, etc.); deprivation; divestiture; forfeit; revocation
workforce reduction; personnel cut
leisurely post; do-nothing job; sinecure
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
to reward; to recompense; to repay; to retaliate; to get revenge
plenipotentiary powers; full authority
grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together; both
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
hollow; cavity; dent; depression
almost; roughly; approximately
crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
to be dark; to be dull; to be unassuming; to be inconspicuous; to not stand out
to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)
in an instant; in a moment; immediately; suddenly; all of a sudden; all at once
puddle of blood; pool of blood
to cover fully; to wrap around
to fly around; to scatter
to change into; to convert to; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
vermiculation; peristalsis; crawling like a worm
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
to creep up; to crawl up; to overcome (a bad situation); to rise (after a setback)
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
first-rate; finest quality; the best
isn't it?; let's ...; why don't we ...; how about we ...
to surround; to crowd around
hearty; tremendous; magnificent; glorious; splendid; heroic
hand-me-down; food offering to the gods; leftovers; trip from Kyoto to the provinces
sharp, loud rebuke; bark; roar; rebuke used in Zen to achieve enlightenment
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
performance; take; game; season; penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
intoxication; being carried away by; being enraptured by
to give one's life; to lay down one's life