suspension; stoppage; discontinuance; interruption
tomfoolery; monkey business
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
recollection; reminiscence
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
commemorable; worth commemorating; momentous; monumental
to house; to contain; to carry (a baby); to be pregnant; (arch.) to give lodging to; (arch.) to accommodate
to keep a promise; to keep one's word
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
long ago; already; a long time ago
to lay bare; to expose; to reveal
evening; night; nighttime
to call out; to ask someone to come
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected
to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
directly opposite; right in front
equal; identical; the same; no different (to); just like; equivalent
leaping; activity; leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic); making great strides; making rapid progress
to rush out from one's mouth (words, phrases, etc.)
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
farfetched (argument, opinion); forced (sense, view); strained (interpretation); distorted
distortion; stretch; strained interpretation; technicality; casuistry; sophistry
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence
cover (e.g. for illegal activity); front; Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant); straw raincoat that makes one invisible
execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion