solitude; loneliness; isolation
fortune-telling; divination
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
imperial villa; royal villa; detached palace
lieutenant general; vice-admiral
(one's) older brother; young man; sonny; lad
villain; baddie; the villain's part
(your) daughter; young woman
Karafuto (Japanese name for Sakhalin)
maneuver (usu. of military force); manoeuvre; mobile; nimble; agile
armoring; armouring; armor; armour
varna (each of the four Hindu castes)
to be caught in a dilemma; to get into a scrape
bottom of the ocean; seafloor; seabed; undersea; submarine
plan to overcome an obstacle or break out of a deadlock; breakthrough solution
being in love with each other
landing; alighting; touch down
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
falling down; tumbling; reversing; inverting; getting upset
leader of a delegation (body, party)
red-horned demon; red ogre
sacrifice; victim; sacrifice (to a deity)
to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake
audience (with a superior, e.g. nobility)
advanced level; high grade; senior
test; trial; probation; ordeal; tribulation
dharma transmission (formal confirmation of a student's awakening by his master); certificate of proficiency (in flower arrangement, etc.)
operation; functioning; running
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
to trail (of smoke, clouds, etc.); to hang (of mist, haze, etc.); to lie (over); to linger; to flow (e.g. of hair in the wind)
one face; one surface; the whole surface; one aspect; one side; (on) the other hand; one broad, flat object
to go down and stand; to alight; to get down
abundant (grain) crop; good harvest
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
large-scale work; voluminous work; monumental work; great work; masterpiece