for two people's eyes to meet; catching someone's eye; making eye contact; meeting a person's gaze
sudden; abrupt; urgent; pressing; steep; sharp; rapid
fantasy; illusion; vision; dream
(sense of) reality; realness; realism; authenticity; viability
boorish; unsophisticated; unrefined; uncouth; tasteless; insensitive
generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
whirr; hum; buzz; whoosh; woosh; whiz
flapping sound (of wings); fluttering; hum (of insects); whizz (of a flying arrow); whoosh
to shake; to waver; to tremble
to shut one's eyes; to ignore; to pretend not to know; to die
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
laboratory; seminar room; professor's office
to float; to rise to the surface; to stand out; to be visible; to be alienated
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
alteration (of character or essence); change in quality; transformation; deterioration; degeneration; transmutation
mention (in a document); record; entry; statement; listing
clause; paragraph; argument; term (of an equation); (arch.) nape (of the neck)
is something that; is that which
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
perception; sensing; noticing
oscillation; vibration; swing (e.g. of a pendulum)
... is the reason; ... is my excuse
probability; likelihood; chances
if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
having no idea what will happen; God only knows; there is no knowing; you never can tell
location (of something); whereabouts; hiding place
frank; direct; plain; straightforward; point-blank; concise
suddenly; abruptly; slowly; leisurely; deliberately
to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)