ignition; lighting; firing; setting off
to gain knowledge; to be illuminated; enlightening; informative; illuminating
settlement; village; community; (bacterial) colony
big landowner; great landowner; land baron; landed magnate; large landowner; territorial magnate
preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence
ability; capability; skill
(trend of) the times; current of the times; spirit of the age
to go with the flow; to go with the times
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
zaibatsu; financial conglomerate; industrial group
centre; center; pivot; central nervous system
husband; groom; (one's) son-in-law
eldest daughter; first-born daughter
moving (to a new place); moving in; transfer (to a new school)
sense of values; values; value system
November; eleventh month of the lunar calendar
reception room; parlor; parlour
to sit cross-legged; to rest on one's laurels
to sit; to squat; to be implicated
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
seedbed; nursery; seed-plot
heartlessness; hardness of heart; coldheartedness; insentient; inanimate
willpower; energy; vitality
to chip (off); to shave (off); to slice (off); to dampen (e.g. enthusiasm); to discourage; to weaken
ceremony held at the end of a school term; end-of-term ceremony
to graduate from a university
to wait on someone hand and foot; to take personal care of someone
mediator; manager; caretaker
cannot be undone; can't be recovered from
Son of God; Jesus Christ; child of God; Christian; prodigy; young ace
to flip-flop; to do an about-face; (lit.) to flip over one's hand; to do something easy
plausible; believable; solemn; dignified; serious
home area; home town; local