adult; grown-up; becoming an adult; coming of age; growing up (to be a man, woman)
to polish up; to shine up
sword skills; swordsmanship
smoky; awkward; uncomfortable; ill at ease
to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance
check (against); collation (with); comparison; verification
absorption; suction; attraction
circulation; dissemination
congress; parliament; diet; legislative assembly
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
penalty; sentence; punishment
to manage; to deal with; to cope with; to sentence; to condemn; to punish
every ...; every other ...; at intervals of ...; with ... in between; ... apart
(beheading) block; guillotine; scaffold
to go to the top; to climb to the top; to ascend to the top; to be engrossed in; to be very enthusiastic about; to be infatuated with
opaque; obscure; opacity; obscurity; unclear; unpredictable
invisibly; secretly; privately
stool (stood on to reach high objects); small stepladder; (fig.) stepping stone
form; adjective; i-adjective (in Japanese)
stalker; (mechanical) stoker
originator; ringleader; perpetrator; main culprit; person responsible
to tag along; to follow; to tail; to shadow
to watch to the end; to ascertain; to determine; to know thoroughly; to obtain a deep understanding of
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
to be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly
easily (reach, exceed, etc.); comfortably; amply; fully; well over
to stop walking; to pause
to throw off (clothes); to cast off; to fling off; to cast off (old ideas, habits, etc.); to discard
remembering; recollection; anamnesis; recall (memory); retrieval
to be working hard; to be doing one's best
very messy; (stuff) all over the place; (lit.) no space even for one's feet
thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
to sentence; to assign a penalty
in that way; like that; that way
to be upset; to lose one's composure; to lose self-control; to put in disorder; to mess up; to disturb
palm (of one's hand); skill; (in one's) grip; (under one's) control; one's (concealed) intentions; one's cards
rapid succession (e.g. questions)
to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected
calmly; quietly; gently; be quiet!
moment; instant; kshana; duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second); shortest possible interval of time
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings
fully fledged; full-fledged; proper; competent; qualified; full-grown
to stand up straight; to stick up (e.g. of hair); to stand up abruptly; to jump to one's feet; to stand (doing nothing); to stand around