straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank
horizon (related to bodies of water)
brilliant; bright; dazzling
noisily (e.g. from many people talking); creating a commotion; rustling (leaves); feeling a chill; getting the chills
to bewitch; to confuse; to enchant; to delude
notice; attention; observation
taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
to be related; to be connected; to be joined together; to result in; to lead to; to bring about
sad to say; how sad; alas
to assign; to allot; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate; to assess
to burn; to scorch; to singe; to char
slight movement; slight tremor; quiver
trend; course of action; directionality; directivity; directional; vectorial
strong interaction; strong force
standing upright; standing bolt upright; rearing
even more; still more; further
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
possession (by a spirit, etc.); dependence; depending on
deviant; deviate; pervert; weirdo
to gain nothing; to be of no benefit; to be no use; to be unprofitable
to hate each other; to hate mutually
to pull into; to draw in; to bring in; to win over
bottom of one's heart; depths of one's mind; innermost thoughts; from the bottom of one's heart; wholeheartedly; truly
conquest; subjugation; overcoming
double; twice (as much); twofold
the four auspicious beasts from Chinese mythology
even if not; even without
foothold; footing; toehold; stepping stone
cannot do a thing; feeling handcuffed; being at the end of one's tether; being at one's wit's end
new; newly made; newly-built ship; new boat; unmarried woman of about 20; newly-married woman
of no use whatsoever; good for nothing; useless
start; beginning; build up; how well a pitcher pitches at the start of the game
revival (e.g. musical); come-back; restoration; rebirth; resurrection
recovery; undoing; recall
to be angry; to resent; to be enraged; to be indignant
to take someone's life; to kill someone
behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness
to confuse (someone); to befuddle; to bewilder; to mystify; to throw up a smokescreen; (lit.) to surround with smoke
considerably; not a little; in no small numbers