great; excellent; distinguished; important; awful; terrible
bum; good-for-nothing; ne'er-do-well
one after another; in rapid succession
helper; assistant; help; assistance
plot; scheme; trick; design; intrigue; artifice
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
reconstruction; reorganization; reorganisation; reconstitution; reconfiguration
edge (of a river, woods, etc.); shoulder (of a road); rim; brim; fabric border (of a tatami mat, etc.); edging
railing; guard rail; (arch.) (shining) brightly (of the moon or stars); (arch.) (flowing) endlessly (of tears)
dying in vain; useless death; meaningless death
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
skill; ability; dexterity; performance; workmanship; craftsmanship
to put together; to combine; to join together; to match against (e.g. in a sport)
to get blurry vision; to get bleary eyes; to get dim eyesight
from here; from this place
rainbow-colored; rainbow-coloured
to flicker; to glimmer; to flit; to fall lightly (snow, rain)
what kind of thing; anything (else); nothing (but)
to be unsteady; to reel; to shake; to waver; to be unsettled (feelings, thoughts, etc.)
to cling to; to hang onto; to rely on; to depend on; to implore; to entreat
acceleration; speeding up
vertical shaking (of an earthquake); pitch (of a ship, aircraft, etc.); pitching
lower part; substructure; subordinate (office); good and faithful servant
to lie down; to throw oneself down
aptitude; aptness; suitability
implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization
awkward (movements, speech, etc.); jerky; stiff; strained (relations); sour
stage assistant dressed in black; stagehand; prompter; behind-the-scenes supporter; string-puller
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
on the occasion of; at the time of
to start working; to take action
(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate
bodily sensation; feeling in the body; physical feeling; coenesthesia; cenesthesia; coenesthesis
process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction
to look at again; to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review; to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light; to improve
memory; sense; experience
to cut into (a line, conversation, etc.); to force oneself into (e.g. a crowd); to fall below (of stock prices, sales, etc.); to drop below; to wedge; to play a wedge
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely