extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; annihilation
ideal situation; ideal world; perfect world; utopia
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
100,000; hundred thousand
to bring to a finish; to bind firmly; to superintend
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
to listen attentively to; to be lost in
keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)
wonderful; splendid; magnificent
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
morale (of troops, team, etc.); esprit de corps
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
to listen to in an ecstasy
the five elements (in Japanese philosophy: earth, water, fire, wind and void); five great wisdom kings
actual existence; real existence; existing in real life
origin; beginning; source; rise
to pass down (a story) from generation to generation; to hand down
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
right; correct; proper; righteous; just
idle gossip; foolish talk; yarn
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
the ancients; ancient people
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts
to sleep; to die; to rest (in peace); to lie idle (e.g. of resources); to lie unused; (arch.) to close one's eyes
to pass (time); to spend; to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); (arch.) to take care of; (arch.) to support
to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
tribe; clan; (taxonomical) tribe; group (of the periodic table)
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
difficult to ...; hard to ...
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first
rucksack; knapsack; backpack
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow