absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
sticking to; clinging to; adhesion; cohesion; agglutination
departure; departing (from ...); sending; sent (by ...); engine; counter for gunshots, bursts of gas, etc.
detour; circumvention; turning movement
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
delay; lag; postponement; falling behind
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble up; to put together in a hurry
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
to start a journey; to embark on a trip; to set forth; to hit the trail
several years; a few years
training; education; stocking up; laying in; preparation (e.g. ingredients); girl studying to become a geisha
I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow
without; unacceptable; not alright; unsatisfactory
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
to side with (someone); to support (someone)
statement; remark; observation; utterance; speech; proposal
to be too numerous; to be too much
if you think about it; come to think of it
last night; yesterday evening
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
high-spirited; cheerful; assertive; vigorous
oh my god!; oh my gosh!; you got me!; wow!
ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice
to employ; to hire; to charter
disturbance; obstruction; hindrance; jamming; interference
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
definitely; absolutely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
that road (path, street, way, etc.); that line (of business); that profession; love affairs; romance
closure (of a road); suspension of traffic; road closed; closed to traffic; no through road
how long; how far; how much
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder