elaborate; delicate; exquisite
precise; exact; detailed; accurate; minute; close
to be selected (from among many people)
Shinto priest; Shinto priesthood
refining; refinement; smelting; training
great-grandfather; great-granddad; great-grandad
half the face; one side; half; the other side; the reverse; the contrary
800,000; eight hundred thousand
staged event; faked situation; prearranged performance
excess; surplus; superabundance
to give off sparks; to spark; to scintillate; to have a heated argument; to combat; to do something fiercely
contest of strength; trial of strength
battle; fight; war; struggle; conflict
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
to wind (of a road, etc.); to meander; to twist; to undulate; to surge; to swell
freezing; turning into ice; freezing; locking up; freezing (in one's tracks); frieze (part of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice)
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
operation (of machine); operating; running; working
one's chance; the right time; target; objective
to put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside
fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light; person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake
smelling burnt; smelling scorched; smelling of gunpowder (i.e. as if armed conflict is about to break out); tense; suspicious; dubious
sense of touch; tactile; tactual; hair style with long bangs
in order; in turn; one by one
percussion hammer; firing hammer; cocking piece
to live through; to survive
splinters of glass; glass shards
largish; biggish; a little bit larger
with a burst of strength; rapidly; in one go
one by one; one after another; successively
rising; ascending; climbing