border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
literature; the arts; art and literature; liberal arts
readership; target audience (of a magazine)
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
to dig down; to dig into (a matter); to delve into; to probe into
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
perfect; complete; flawless
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
weather forecast; weather report
weather; look of the sky; situation; turn of affairs; signs
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
to begin to fall (rain, etc.)
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
very likely; very probable
foresight; foreknowledge; divination
relief; mitigation; alleviation; relaxation (of restrictions, tensions, etc.); easing; softening
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
quotation; citation; reference
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
here and there; in places
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium
to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)
power; might; authority; influence
lessening; diminishing; reducing
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
unusual power; superpower; ability beyond that of humans
emission (of light); radiation (of light); luminescence
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start