convenient; favorable; favourable; expedient; expedience
to spur on; to urge forward; to impel; to drive at high speed (e.g. a car)
level ground; horizon; field of view
cross-examination; close questioning; demanding an explanation
behavior; behaviour; manner; attitude; bearing
staying up all night; all-night vigil
to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct
boasting of one's strength
one's post; one's position; one's station; one's round; one's beat; one's route
infancy; childhood; tender age
to compete with; to vie for
natural; reasonable; understandable
to give an order; to place an order; to have made to order
rolled egg; rolled omelette (omelet); fried egg; frying pan for making rolled eggs
raft; forearm protector; skewered baby-eel kabayaki
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer
back-and-forth; neck-and-neck
fee; charge; rate; material
worldly affairs; ways of the world
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
to look toward; to have one's eyes drawn towards something
rapidly; vigorously; by leaps and bounds; steadily
to pour water on; to irrigate
crunching; chewing or crushing something hard; hard and crunchy; very skinny; emaciated
to rub against; to chafe; to quarrel
to seal (letter); to prevent; to forbid; to block
powerful; strong; forceful; reassuring; encouraging
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
rolling over; turning over; turning around (the other way); reversal (of direction, course, etc.); producing a positive from a negative (photography); producing a negative from a positive
gale; strong wind; swift wind; fresh breeze (Beaufort scale)
to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep
side (of the torso); flank; illegitimate child; child born by someone other than one's wife
to watch for an unguarded moment
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
government service; government employ