great achievement; great feat; great work; great undertaking
poor-quality; shoddy; unskillful; inexpert; unlucky
used; second-hand; old; Middle Ages (in Japan esp. Heian period)
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
picking; collecting; harvesting; extraction
subjugation (using military force); suppression; subduing
trampling down; overrunning; infringement; violation
just before; just prior to; right in front of; just in front of
oracle; revelation; divine message
if you do this; if this is the case
deterioration; getting worse; worsening; aggravation; degeneration; corruption
(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place
nasal mucus; dripping nose; snot
to leak (urine, feces); to soil one's pants; to dump (untreated waste, sewage, etc.); to discharge (untreated effluent); to leak (information, secrets, etc.); to bleed (a deficit, losses, etc.)
riddle; puzzle; enigma; enigmatic; mysterious
a drowning man will clutch at a straw
paradise; heaven; Kingdom of Heaven
to grant; to give; to confer; to teach; to instruct; to impart (knowledge)
to rise (to a high position); to work one's way up; to push one's way up; to be promoted
perplexity; difficult question; difficult problem
to take off one's hat to a person; to acknowledge another's superiority
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
I feel that ...; I feel as though ...; I have a feeling that ...; I have the impression that ...; I think that ...
the same kind; accomplice; partner
fully fledged; full-fledged; proper; competent; qualified; full-grown
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
moving from place to place; being passed around repeatedly; rolling about
permanent stationing; staying permanently; resident (program, file, etc.)
good at fighting; usually wins a fight
quite; utterly; (not) at all; completely; wholly; entirely
to adhere to; to stick to; to keep close to; to go along with; to get involved with; to be thick with
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); fill-in-the-blank activity
to coat a surface with something that adheres strongly when hardened (i.e. grout, plaster, lacquer); to cover up (e.g. truth); to varnish (e.g. with lies, rumors)
person who just tags along; hanger-on; person who follows someone around like a shadow; clingy person; mindless follower; (lit.) goldfish feces
tip of the hand; (use of) one's hands; cheap trick; superficial wit; cheap; makeshift (e.g. measures)
to project; to reflect; to cast (shadow)
main constituent; core; nucleus; subject