festival merrymaking; revelry
scorn; disdain; contempt; slight
secret manoeuvres (maneuvers); operating behind the scenes
to break the silence; to break one's silence
to correct; to rectify; to reform; to straighten (one's posture, collar, etc.); to adjust
change of heart; change of mind; change in love interest
to judge; to decide; to sit in judgement; to try
to yield; to give way to; to make way for
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
crisp (e.g. potato chip, fried fish, etc.); crunchy; grumpily; touchily; scratching
high alert; a state of high alert; on alert
once; for a short time; briefly; (arch.) one morning
return; reaction; recovery; return (from a procedure)
private property; personal belongings; personal effects
escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing
one's say; one's point; complaint; grievance; objection
terrible; awful; I don't even want to talk about it; without reason; inevitable; that's just how it is
black and white; monochrome; good and evil; right and wrong; guilt and innocence
point of an argument; drift of an argument
leaping; activity; leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic); making great strides; making rapid progress
reason; logic; method; system; order
side; edge; beside; while (doing); in addition to; at the same time
to lose one's cool; to blow one's top; to flip one's lid; to get angry
to make sense; to be consistent; to be logical; to stand to reason; to be coherent
selection; choice; option
to deduct; to take away; to make allowances for something; to bear something in mind; to ebb and flow
reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence
to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)
young person; servant; errand boy in a samurai family; person of lowly status
to misplace; to put in the wrong place; to make a mistake in deciding the winner
dying in vain; useless death; meaningless death
true state; actual condition; reality
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
split among friends; falling out; internal discord
movements; manner; behaviour; farewell dinner (given by someone about to leave on a trip)
to be very far apart from; to be remote; to be quite different from
to whip; to lash; to give the rod; to spur on; to encourage
to push away; to push aside; to shove
fight; scuffle; walking about; walking around; conducting oneself; stroll (in noh, an action piece involving circling the stage)
pistol; handgun; revolver
long (time that has passed); old (story)
to become rounded; to roll into a ball
slapping on (stamp, sticker); flopping down