ear; hearing; edge; crust; selvedge (non-fray machined edge of fabrics); selvage
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
to throw open; to leave open
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
deep blue; bright blue; ghastly pale; pallid; white as a sheet
tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
there; that situation; that occasion; the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
ranking wrestler in the makuuchi (senior-grade) or juryo (junior-grade) divisions
soaked; drenched; sopping; splashing; sloshing
to coil about; to follow about; to surround; to cling to
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
reality; actuality; hard fact
scenery; scene; landscape
contortion; distortion; warp; kink (in one's character); twist
to become misty; to become hazy; to get blurry; to grow dim; to be overshadowed; to be upstaged
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
at regular intervals; evenly spaced
gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn
ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner
expansion; swelling; increase; growth
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
explosion; rupture; break off
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
as before; as ever; as it was originally