equality; impartiality; evenness
to find fault (with trivial matters); to scold over minor things; to get angry over trifles; to raise one's eyebrows
accomplishment; execution
existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive
to replace; to exchange; to interchange; to substitute
loss; feeling of loss; Los Angeles
to pull down; to lower; to reduce; to withdraw
ignoring; disregarding; taking no notice of; refusing to comment on; turning a deaf ear to
after all; anyway; actually; well, ...; ... on earth (e.g. "what on earth?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?")
cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier); guandao; Chinese glaive
uninhabited area; acting inhumanly; inhuman person; nonhuman life (usu. sentient)
foolishness; stupidity; silliness
swan (Cygnus spp.); white-feathered bird
grace; refinement; elegance; daintiness
peafowl (incl. the male peacock, female peahen, and young peachick)
rough-hewn; incomplete; unrefined; still in the process of being formed
needle-point holder (in ikebana); frog
to wind (of a road, etc.); to meander; to twist; to undulate; to surge; to swell
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
union; joining; conjugation
to strike back at; to bite back; to turn on; to rise against; to oppose; to defy
drop of water; vessel for replenishing inkstone water
hollow; mid-air; air; sky
one wing; (a) role; (a) part
pleasant; agreeable; comfortable; refreshing
to make way for; to make room for; to get out of the way; to pave the way for; to open up opportunity
very; extremely; extreme; excessive; splendid; impressive
promising without due consideration
shrewdly; smartly; calculatingly; astutely; cunningly
one's own strength; one's own efforts; self-salvation
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
to change one's way of thinking; to switch the direction of one's thoughts; to put one's focus on a new subject; to adopt a new frame of mind
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
yours sincerely; respectfully yours
cannot help (doing, etc.); cannot resist; must not ...; should not ...; must ...; have to ...
root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
to be gouged; to be hollowed; to become hollow