each nation; many nations; many countries
calamity; disaster; accident
infertility; sterility; barrenness
to suffer; to receive (kindness, rebuke, support); to sustain (damage)
to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)
round; circular; curved; smooth; harmonious; calm
Tuesday; fire (second of the five elements)
grazing; skimming; almost touching; barely; just; narrowly
garden lantern; hanging lantern
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
adipocere (waxy substance formed by the decomposition of corpses subjected to moisture); grave wax
to grab at; to clutch; to grapple with
to change into; to convert to; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
off the coast; offshore; out at sea
appearance; arrival; make one's appearance
Buddhist priest; bonze; close-cropped hair; crew cut; boy; sonny
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
to tear to pieces; to tear to shreds; to pick (e.g. fruit); to pluck; to do ... heavily; to do ... heartily
slowly (but steadily); gradually; irritatedly; impatiently; scorchingly (of the sun); sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil); sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc.
rendezvous; tryst; (lover's) meeting; (secret) date
gathering clouds; group of clouds
being startled, surprised or afraid; panic; trepidation
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
distinguishing; distinction; discrimination; telling apart
paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor
to conform to; to agree with; to be adapted to; to be based on
to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
slowly (but steadily); gradually; bit-by-bit; slowly soaking in; slowly permeating; oozing out
bonze; monk; monk's dwelling; boy; son; I; me
to have a feeling (that); to have a sensation (that)
large crowd; large herd; large flock; large school; large shoal; swarm
choices; alternatives; options
to envelop; to blanket; to cloak
to narrow; to reduce; to contract
base of the tongue; root of the tongue