brave fight; desperate fight
meek; gentle; modest; praiseworthy; admirable
one's long-cherished desire
oath; vow; attestation; solemn pledge
to take the opportunity (to do something); to take the chance
common knowledge; well-known fact
all of a sudden; suddenly; by chance; unexpectedly
to adjoin each other; to sit side by side
to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues
miserable; disconsolate; helpless; cheerless; downhearted; dreary
to leave nothing undone; to give good service; to attend to everything; to be on someone's tracks (e.g. police); to catch up with; to close in on
ignoring; looking the other way; passing through; going through; ball hit through net (in tennis)
what kind of; what sort of; what; how; in what way
clearing one's throat; cough
personification; anthropomorphization
to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan
marriage fraud; fake marriage
showing no signs of (verb); extremely unlikely to (verb)
long sentence; long piece of writing (e.g. passage, letter, article, telegram)
rice and curry; curry rice
Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)
to snarl (at each other); to growl (angrily); to quarrel; to fight; to argue
compensation; equivalent value; consideration
quiet conversation; gossiping; idle talk
First World War (1914-1918); World War I; WWI; WW1
spilling; spill; leavings; leftovers
fiction; fabrication; concoction; fictitious; fictional; imaginary
absolute; complete; utter; pure; sheer
to be branded a ...; to be labelled a ...
deficiency disease (e.g. protein, vitamin, etc.)
right of residence (i.e. right to go on leasing a house, etc.)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that
dwelling; house; residence; den; habitat
belief; faith; adherence; espousal
one's own property; possessions