final; eventual; ultimate
unconcernedly; nonchalantly; shamelessly; brazenly
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
bringing; taking; carrying
to pick up; to adopt (a proposal); to take up (a topic); to take issue with; to make a problem of; to report (news); to cover
main constituent; core; nucleus; subject
(made of) leather; leather-bound
leather; tanned animal hide; suede; kanji "tanned leather" radical (radical 178)
to boil down; to concentrate (soup, milk, stock, etc.); to reach a conclusion; to conclude a discussion
to be inferior to; to be less good at; to fall behind
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
to hang one's head; to look down; to cast one's eyes downward
remembering; recollection; anamnesis; recall (memory); retrieval
irritating; aggravating; upsetting; maddening; infuriating; exasperating
to vanish gradually (e.g. of a voice); to trail off; to die away; to feel one's soul leaving one's body (from embarrassment, grief, etc.); to feel faint; to feel numb
in a sense; in some way; to an extent
care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
instead; but (on the other hand)
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
digestion (of food); digestion (of information); assimilation; consumption; absorption; (arch.) losing one's form and turning into something else
mastery; skillfulness; dexterity; master hand; expert
all over the country; everywhere in the country; throughout the nation
abandoned child; foundling
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable
selection; sorting; culling; screening; triage
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to reach the peak of something (e.g. luxury, hardships, etc); to be extremely (e.g. busy); to exhaust completely; to have nothing left (e.g. to say)
one by one; one after another; successively
dropping out; falling behind; omission; being left out; falling off; coming off
destination; whereabouts; future; prospects
in name only; titular; nominal
single; solo; solitary; just one; only one
to lose; to be defeated; to give in (to); to yield; to be inferior (to); to be second (to)
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
to stake; to risk; to bet; to wager
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
cannibalism (in animals); feeding on each other; cannibalization; mutually harmful competition; internecine struggle
one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
to forget completely; to leave behind
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy