dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
transcendence; transcendency; transcendental; to transcend; to rise above
ultimate; final; last; eventual
rich (in flavor, color, smell, etc.); thick; very likely; highly possible; passionate; hot
disaster; calamity; misfortune; trouble; woes
to bark; to howl; to howl (e.g. of the wind); to roar; to yell; to cry
very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just
just before; on the verge of; on the brink of; just in front of; just ahead of
carelessness; careless mistake; wetting oneself; soiling oneself; (arch.) crude; (arch.) coarse
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
to change color (esp. leaves, fruit, flowers) (colour); to turn crimson (e.g. leaves in autumn); to begin to redden; to ripen; to grow ripe
steward; butler; court official; deacon (Anglican, Lutheran, etc.)
switching off (e.g. electricity); turning off (e.g. water); off-season; offset; off-road; off-line; off (the price)
condition; figure; appearance; voice
to brave; to risk; to harm; to afflict; to desecrate; to profane
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission
to trace (drawing); to follow; to imitate; to copy; to reproduce
initial response (e.g. to a crisis); action in the earliest stages; initial shock (of an earthquake); preliminary tremor
foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
decider; person who decides; deciding factor; clincher; trump card
under the orders of; by order (command)
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
don't worry about it; forget about it
this occasion; at this time; now
to watch over; to watch attentively
character (in a play or novel); dramatis personae
with a clash; with a thud; unexpectedly (meeting someone); suddenly (ending); abruptly (coming to a halt)
feeling chilly; nervous; anxious; frightened
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
wrapping (something) in a bamboo mat; wrapping someone in a bamboo mat and throwing them into a river (unofficial Edo-period punishment)
opportunity; occasion; (arch.) order; (arch.) sequence; (arch.) successor
sympathy; compassion; pity
miasma; noxious form of "bad air" formerly believed to cause diseases
to take someone's life; to kill someone