person adrift on the sea; castaway (on an island)
thrust; driving force; propulsion
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
low-level; trivial; coarse; low-dimension
ardent; passionate; vehement
speculation; thinking; meditation
highest peak; highest mountain; greatest authority; most prominent person; pinnacle (e.g. of art)
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
oppression; suppression; pressure
material civilization; material civilisation
to write (e.g. a letter); to draw up (a document); to take down (e.g. notes); to have (lunch, dinner, etc.); to eat
scholar of literature; literary person; man of letters; writer
both sides; two sides; double-sided
foreign element; impurity; admixture
uncertainty; inaccuracy; incorrectness
mixing; blending; adding; adulteration
malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)
to boil up; to seethe; to get excited; to be in an uproar
excess flesh; surplus fat; flab
arteriosclerosis; hardening of the arteries
metabolism; renewal; regeneration; replacing the old with the new
myself; oneself; (arch.) I; (arch.) me; (arch.) you (referring to one's inferior)
universal; general; ubiquitous; omnipresent
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
to be transparent; to be see-through; to be clear; to be clear (voice, sound)
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
strange disease; rare disease
spreading; infesting; running rampant
willful; wilful; selfish; carefree; do-as-you-please; freewheeling
genuine; authentic; true; pure
copy; duplicate; facsimile; transcript
pressure; oppression; suppression
spectrum (radio, etc.); spectral; spectra
to be worm-eaten; to be eaten by worms; to affect adversely; to spoil; to ruin
to spur (on); to expedite; to encourage
counter for long, thin things (i.e. swords)
entire world; whole world; world stage