treasury; treasure house; storehouse; treasure trove; rich source (of)
crack; crevice; fissure; chap; rift
tear; rip; rent; slit; crack; chasm
to paint over; to paint out; to fill in; to cover completely (with paint)
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
at a loss for what to do; at one's wits' end; having no choice
adaptation; accommodation; conformity
to survive; to continue living; to escape death
ideal situation; ideal world; perfect world; utopia
to bring to a finish; to bind firmly; to superintend
to listen attentively to; to be lost in
morale (of troops, team, etc.); esprit de corps
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
to listen to in an ecstasy
origin; beginning; source; rise
to cut down; to slay; to truncate; to round down; to omit; to discard
the ancients; ancient people
something to think about; one's thoughts; concern; thinking about something; being absorbed in one's thoughts
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
patrolling; one's rounds; inspection tour; watchman; patrolman
to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
to resolve; to ready (oneself); to make up one's mind
to be confusing; to be different from what one is used to
up and down, left and right; top and bottom, left and right
basics; fundamentals; basis; foundation
low-altitude flying; having consistently poor results (grades, sales, etc.); barely scraping by; being on the verge of failing
shaking; shake; unsettledness; instability; existence of multiple spellings, pronunciations, usages, etc. for a single word
guidance; leadership; leading the way
to put on (one's head); to wear; to be covered with (dust, snow, etc.); to pour (water, etc.) on oneself; to bear (e.g. someone's debts, faults, etc.); to take (blame); to overlap (e.g. sound or color)
quick change; quick transformation; metamorphosis; turning suddenly into
to reverberate; to resound; to echo; to have one's fame spread; to be renowned
formation (e.g. of aircraft)
rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)
now (with the nuance of 'the last moment'); this late in the game
annihilation; total destruction; complete destruction; crushing defeat
escape; break-out; prolapse; proptosis
completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)
all present; all concerned; all of us