loss and gain; advantage and disadvantage
lovers talk; sweet nothings
overly serious; serious to a fault; humorless
tedious; lengthy; overlong; long-winded
destruction (esp. of evidence); spoliation; suppression; hiding; concealment
discovery (of a plot, misdeed, etc.); detection; exposure; disclosure
specific gravity; relative density; relative importance; weight
divining sticks; counting; calculation
contagious disease; communicable disease; transmissible disease; infectious disease; epidemic
how could I (you, etc.) ...?; how dare you (they, etc.) ...; how can you have the nerve to ...?
minimum; (very) least; at least some (comfort, etc.); only (consolation, saving grace, etc.); sole
hateful; detestable; loathsome
to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle
to arrange beforehand; to make a sign to each other; to conspire
to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish
moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)
at every opportunity; for each and every thing that crops up; with every little thing; whenever possible; whenever the chance arises; at every turn
quarrel; argument; row; (verbal) dispute
(school) girlish taste (for things that are sweet, cute, romantic, etc.); interest in young girls (rather than adult women)
price; cost; charge; payment; bill; fee
unable to get along; unable to cooperate; unable to hit it off; not seeing eye to eye
ridge on the side of a sword blade; ridged pattern
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
the good fortune to have been born male
spiritual plane; spiritual aspect; mental level
horseback riding; sitting astride; straddling
to pin down; to immobilize; to immobilise; to control; to suppress
to refuse; to decline; to deny
violent; furious; extreme; intense; fervent; vehement
streaming (of tears); pouring; pouring (of rain or sweat)
to be overcome with emotion
relic from an earlier age; something extremely outmoded