to cool oneself; to cool off; to enjoy the cool air
connection; link; relationship
literally; to the letter; literal
hereditary disposition; temperament; nature; (arch.) body build
drawing up (e.g. legal document, contract, will, etc.); preparing; writing; framing; making; producing
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to untie; to unfasten; to unsew; to unstitch; to solve; to work out; to dispel (misunderstanding, etc.)
to attempt; to test; to try out
essence; true nature; substance; reality
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
university entrance examination
to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
many; a lot; much; multitude
to challenge to (a fight, game, etc.); to throw down the gauntlet; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to attempt; to pressure (someone) for sex; to make advances to
taste; liking; preference
intellectual level; level of intelligence
to be imaginable; to be conceivable
events of the day; current affairs
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
incident; affair; happening; event
to entwine; to twine around; to coordinate (with); to arrest
to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
to draw (conclusion); to deduce; to derive
to be present (esp. during a birth); to be witness to
to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown)
wise ruler; enlightened monarch; benevolent lord
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
department; section; course (of study); branch of study; (taxonomical) family
to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords
both armies; both teams; both sides