to get tired of waiting; to grow impatient
silence; stillness; quietness
territory; domain; dominion; possession; sphere of action
consent; assent; agreement; understanding; comprehension; grasp
to be suspicious of; to be doubtful of; to be dubious of
to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
relief; reassurance; recognition of right to land ownership (by the shogunate, a feudal lord, etc.); (arch.) living safely surrounded by walls
danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
polite; courteous; hospitable
in either case (used specifically in the instance of two possible outcomes or situations); either way; one way or another
selection; choice; option
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
basis for decision; evidence for judging
to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug
to use to the full (one's voice, energy, etc.); to muster all of (one's strength, courage, etc.); to summon all of; to exert fully; to strain (one's voice)
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
supernatural (e.g. psychic phenomena and such); paranormal
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
selfish; self-centred; egotistical
haughty; arrogant; insolent; proud; overbearing
to do something with painful reluctance; (lit.) to have one's hair pulled from behind
idiom; set phrase; idiomatic phrase
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
literally; to the letter; literal
indicates means of action; cause of effect; by
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
before one knows; before one becomes aware of; unnoticed; unawares
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
much less; to say nothing of
hands and feet; limbs; person at one's beck and call; person at hand; reliable worker
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
to lean over (someone); to bend over; to lean on; to weigh on one; to bear (heavily) on one; to lie on one
attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation); affinity; gravitational pull; attractiveness; magnetism