easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusingly similar; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
a lot more; much more; and then some; and plenty more than that
to be wet; to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked
unable to move; held up; swamped; stuck between a rock and a hard place
destruction by fire; losing in a fire; being burnt down
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
to finish reading; to read through
chasing too far; pursuing relentlessly
all night long; all through the night
to search about for; to hunt around for; to look high and low for; to look everywhere for
to straddle; to sit astride; to mount; to extend over; to spread over; to span
foot of a mountain; base of a mountain; foothills
to say (something) over one's shoulder
riding together; riding with
central part; heart (of a city)
crowding together; clustering together; close formation; swarm
high ground; plateau; heights
depression; lowlands; low ground; bottom land; plain
dwelling; house; residence; address
(raised) footpath between rice fields; ridge between rice fields
whether one likes it or not; inevitably; unavoidably; compulsorily; by force
to fade; to discolour; to discolor
very great; enormous; serious
to manage; to control; to supervise; to crack down on; to keep under strict control; to enforce
to assign; to allot; to allocate; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate
to move (house); to change residence
meeting place; assembly hall
to make one's rounds; to patrol
to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to
common occurrence; everyday occurrence; not an uncommon case; normal thing; everyday affair
protective household deity in Tōhoku, appearing as a red-faced child spirit with bobbed hair
to give up as hopeless; to wash one's hands (of someone or something)
to be nearing death; to be dying
smallish; on the small side
Thursday; wood (first of the five elements)
crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
circulation; rotation; cycle; loop
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends)
strongly; violently; with all one's strength
to hold aloft (e.g. a sword); to brandish
kapow; bang; bulging; filled to bursting; prostitute (catering to Occupation soldiers in Japan after WWII)