neighbors; neighbours; neighborhood; neighbourhood
assistant; helper; assistant (to a professor)
very great; enormous; serious
disaster; tragedy; tragic incident; horrible accident
storehouse; warehouse; godown
to lick (all) up; to lick all over; to lick clean; to engulf (in flames); to consume (of fire); to sweep through
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
to match (rhythm, speed, etc.); to join together; to unite; to face; to be opposite (someone); to compare; to check with
in the twinkling of an eye; in a flash
kimono fabrics shop; draper's shop
salon; saloon; sarong; saron (instrument)
Tuesday; fire (second of the five elements)
to anticipate; to expect; to place confidence in; to put trust in; to find promising; to see good prospects (in)
unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat
skyscraping; very high; above the clouds; above this mortal world
edge; brink; verge; time; moment of
sky; air; ether; firmament; the heavens
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
flash of lightning; urgent telegram; express telegraph
one by one; each; every; at intervals of
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
pole; climax; extreme; extremity
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
anyone; any person; whoever
carrying (on one's person or in the hand); mobile phone; cell phone
entering the capital; entering Tokyo
heavy damage; havoc; ravages
information; (brief) notice; letting someone know; first report; initial report
intenseness; violence; severity; vehemence; keenness
to be doing; to be in the process of doing