progress; advance; improvement; development
to be puffed up with pride; to throw out one's chest
(good) result; outcome; fruits (of one's labors); product; accomplishment
reward; prize; treat; delight; small joy
a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many
to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart
purple; violet; purple gromwell (Lithospermum erythrorhizon); red gromwell; soy sauce
mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for
delivering an order; dispatch of an order; messenger; orderly; runner
to be wet (with tears); to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked
to jump back; to leap back; to jump aside; to jump out of the way
to pause; to have a short intermission
trot; half run; jog; girl in charge of menial tasks in a samurai family
messenger; envoy; emissary
to cling to; to depend on; to embrace; to hug
call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
summons; subpoena; citation; summoning (a spirit, demon, etc.); evocation; invocation
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
with one's life (protect, etc.); at the cost of one's life
to slip out (of words, remarks, etc.); to pour from one's lips; to blurt out
casual; doing something without taking it too seriously
to put one's life on the line; to risk one's life; to put everything one has into it
to do one's best; to do something to the best of one's ability
meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview
as soon as possible; ASAP
territory (of country, feudal domain, etc.); (arch.) counter for suits of clothing, sets of armor, etc.
one day; all day (long); the whole day; first day of the month
making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (of letters)
at work; in the midst of work; working
to take a step backward; to retreat a step; to back up
fellow; mutual; companion; comrade
quarrel; brawl; fight; squabble; scuffle; argument
guardian; protector; patron; parent
accompanying; being accompanied by; going with
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
series; chain; two reams (i.e. 1000 sheets of paper); verse; stanza
wiping out; sweeping away; eradicating; dispelling
interior; inside; internal