pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue
tea; tea plant (Camellia sinensis); tea preparation; making tea; brown; (arch.) mockery
battlefield; battleground
man; male; masculine gender
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
highway (esp. one existing from the Edo period); main road; highway (e.g. to success); path (to becoming ...); subdistrict (in China)
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity
(East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July); rain during the rainy season
water shortage; shortage of water supply
hut; cabin; small theatre (theater); temporary playhouse; one's own house
to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into
to compare (something) to; to liken; to speak figuratively; to use a simile; to use a metaphor
consideration; guess; conjecture; judgement
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
to inquire (about); to enquire; to ask; to interrogate; to question intensely; to grill (someone about something)
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
sometimes; occasionally; now and then; from time to time
to be at a loss; to be puzzled
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
to get lost; to lose one's bearings; to be puzzled; to be perplexed; to be tempted; to be seduced
saving (e.g. time, money, resources); economising; economizing
addition; supplement; appending; appendix
sincerely; earnestly; wholeheartedly; repeatedly; over and over; again and again
Second World War (1939-1945); World War II; WWII; WW2
practice; exercise; military exercise; manoeuvres; seminar
Siberia; cake made with layers of sweet bean paste and sponge cake
hypothesis; supposition; assumption; expectation; anticipation
often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly
to forget to say; to forget to mention
broad-leaved forest; broadleaf forest
conifer forest; coniferous forest; needle-leaved forest
in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically
soldier's equipment; war outfit; war fatigues; (wearing) soldier's fatigues
appeal; call for something; request; axiom