ground; land; the region in question; the local area; skin; texture; fabric
(arch.) a weight; temple supervisor; town (of China)
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
to chip (off); to shave (off); to slice (off); to dampen (e.g. enthusiasm); to discourage; to weaken
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
millennium; one thousand years; (fig.) long time
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; confusion
careful consideration; deliberation; thinking over carefully
concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)
(feeling of) tightness in the chest
hiding one's embarrassment
forced laugh; forced smile
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to be softened; to calm down
life or death struggle; mortal combat; struggle to the death
bizarre; strange; weird; grotesque
within a pit or (mine) shaft
to resound; to echo; to reverberate
walking on frost; crunching (e.g. on gravel); lots of coins or jewels; cutting into large pieces; loosely weaving; large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.)
lantern (esp. handheld oil lamp); hurricane lamp
tunnel; (mining) gallery; level; shaft; pit
rail car (esp. a small one used in mines, logging, etc.); trolley; tram
to jump upon (a moving object)
flapping; rattling (sound); noisily; commotion; kerfuffle
to throw into disorder; to disarrange; to disturb (order, peace, etc.); to corrupt (public morals); to dishevel (hair)
rest area; rest stop; service area (next to a highway); service station; parking area
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
involuntary nocturnal tooth grinding; bruxism; grinding one's teeth out of anger or vexation
to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush
sound; noise; acoustics; reverberation; echo; audio
roaring; thundering; thunderous; deafening; ear-splitting
to spit out; to eject; to dump
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)
(railway) buffer stop; bumper; bumping post