although I say; although one might say; although called
(brother and sister) born of a different mother
older brother and younger sister
two persons; two people; pair; couple
mild; calm; gentle; quiet; congenial; amicable
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature
legitimate; orthodox; traditional
admission; (self-)acknowledgment; (self-)acknowledgement; self-identification
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
but; however; provided that
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
to be blessed with; to be rich in; to abound in
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
indicates word or phrase being defined; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); with; (not) as much as; (not) so much as; the fact that
mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; banal
alternation of generations
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
opening; gap; dried and opened fish
sorcery; black magic; netherworld; world outside the six realms where evil spirits roam
society; public; community; social studies
influence; clout; leverage
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
(balance) scales; shoulder carrying pole; steelyard
to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink
such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o