news flash; prompt report; bulletin; quick announcement
five-storied; quintuplicate; fivefold
Shikoku (smallest of the four main islands of Japan)
high-pitched tone; soprano
reserve; spare; treasured; valued; (ace) up one's sleeve; trump
easy to deal with; easily manageable; tractable; malleable
wild rose; bramble; briar patch; obstacle; source of difficulty
to work without sleep or rest
ennui; languishing; feeling of exhaustion; lassitude; lethargy
being well versed (in); being well acquainted (with); being familiar (with); (a boy's) first ejaculation; spermarche; semenarche
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
extermination; expulsion; destruction
conjurer; magician; illusionist
moat; fosse; canal; ditch
group; flock; crowd; wide expanse (of flowers)
to rouse anger; to provoke wrath; to offend
the ninth; Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume
catercorner; diagonally opposite
interval; step; pitch; key
captive; prisoner; victim (of love, etc.); slave (to one's lust, etc.)
starting in advance; starting first; going first; starting (in team sports)
decisive action; carrying out; resolute enforcement; execution
had enough; flatly refusing; wouldn't do for anything; begging pardon
distortion; stretch; strained interpretation; technicality; casuistry; sophistry
investigation (e.g. academically, of the unknown); close inquiry (enquiry)
half-dead; state of uncertainty; limbo; leaving unfinished with the intention of inflicting suffering