rumbling; (ringing) cadence
escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing
rookery; breeding grounds; nesting place
planning; devising (a plan); drafting; drawing up
papier-mâché tiger (toy with a loose, wobbly head); paper tiger; someone (or something) who is all bark and no bite; man of straw
utter failure; completely wrong guess; big miss
fate; destiny; predestination
obscure; vague; ambiguous
monopoly; monopolization; exclusivity; hogging; keeping to oneself
ringleader; main culprit; main cause; source
(power of) understanding; comprehensive faculty
to connect; to correlate; to associate; to relate; to link
to meddle (in someone's affairs); to poke one's nose into; to interfere; to make a pass (at someone); to hit on
assumption; supposition; hypothesis; supposition
guidance; lead; introduction; good offices; guide; primer
taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.); similar to ...; dependent on ...; reliant on ...; while ...; when ...
land route; overland route; by land; overland
air route; air lane; by air; by plane
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
preconception; preconceived notion; prejudice
composite; combined; complex
taking a glance at; glimpsing at; taking a peek at; quick look; peep
to reel; to wind; to turn (pages); to flip through (a book); to count (e.g. the days); to open one-by-one
the south; southward; southern direction; countries in the south (esp. Southeast Asia and the pre-WWII South Pacific Mandate)
secret (recipe, medicine, etc.); mysteries (e.g. of an art)
usurpation; taking back; dispossession
(eating up) quickly; in no time; quickly (sticking out one's tongue); licking; licking up; (peeling off) in one go
to lick off; to take (something) off by licking
to babble in one's cups; to ramble drunkenly
to get tired of waiting; to grow impatient
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
present day; modern times; recent times; early modern period (in Japan, usu. from the Meiji Restoration until the end of World War II)
equation; formula; method for solving a problem; set way of achieving a particular result
adding (an extra amount); increasing; tacking on (a charge)
unable to resist; unable to suppress
news; tidings; information; correspondence; letter
jumping sideways; flying sideways; running hurriedly (with one's body bent forward)