negative (e.g. thinking); negative; negative (electrical polarity)
greenhouse; icehouse; cellar
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
air tanker; aerial tanker; airborne refuelling craft
meeting; rendezvous; romantic encounter; date
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
success or failure; outcome; result
private; informal; among one's people (group, friends)
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
to change; to alter; to run counter to; to go against; to make a mistake (in); to err
commitment; pledge; promise
to set aside; to keep in reserve; to hold on to
mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for
(your) business; (your) concern; (customer's) order; official business (of the government, Imperial Court, etc.); arrest; capture
standing on formality; in a reserved manner; treating a friend as a stranger; unduly distant; formal
to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)
willpower; energy; vitality
to admonish; to persuade; to warn; to remonstrate
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
to look back on (the past); to reflect on; to look behind (at); to turn round (and look); to consider; to concern oneself about
exceedingly; extremely; very many; indeed
to mash; to grind; to pulverize; to dissipate (a fortune); to run through; to lose
existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive
to go to ruin; to go under; to fall; to be destroyed; to die out; to become extinct
to say something is all right; to give the all-clear (e.g. to do something)
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
before one's eyes; under one's nose; immediate (e.g. interests); present; foresight; near future
to mistake one thing for another; to mix up two things; to confuse two things; to misunderstand; to misapprehend
starting late; late departure
circuitous; roundabout; indirect
process; course; mechanism
deployment of troops, equipment, etc. (in preparation for battle)
10^12; 1,000,000,000,000; trillion; sign; omen; indication
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
bodily sensation; sense; experience
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
not yet known; unknown; strange