special someone; special person; precious one; significant other
to come to mind; to pop into one's head
having to be; must be; should be; ought to be
far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
to be petrified; to be unable to move; to be paralyzed (with horror); to be stupefied (with amazement)
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
to be wet; to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked
to be at a loss for words
as if (something untrue were actually true); like hell (e.g. "like hell I will")
male-dominated society; patriarchal society
to follow; to come along with one; to accompany
the truth; fact; as it is; as you are; frank; bare plain
cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist
(a) grain; (a) drop; (a) bead
to spill; to drop; to grumble; to complain; to let one's feelings show
to cut into (a conversation); to interject
to get lost; to lose one's bearings; to be puzzled; to be perplexed; to be tempted; to be seduced
to stick into and move around; to dig around in; to pick (i.e. one's teeth)
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
to chase; to run after; to pursue
unusual; serious; incomparable
to slip through; to make one's way through quickly
unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; uncomfortable; unhappy
to shake off; to shake free from; to swing completely (bat, club, etc.); to take a full swing; to break off from (pursuer); to pull away
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
double; two-fold; diplo-; dipl-; double-edged eyelid; double eyelid
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
correction; looking over; touching up
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
to glance at; to look at; to scan; to run one's eyes over
to write out; to make a fair copy; to rewrite
decipherment; interpretation; making out; identification
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)