confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging
(arch.) youth; (arch.) freshness; good omen; Sweden; Switzerland
something broad and flat; common; ordinary; low-ranking employee; freshman
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
to be conspicuous; to stand out
warrior (esp. of military retainers of daimyos in the Edo period); samurai; (arch.) man in attendance (on a person of high standing); (arch.) retainer
wearing one's hair knotted in the back
bun (hairstyle); chignon; topknot
to give up all thoughts of; to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to take a momentous decision
obstacle; hindrance; impediment; nuisance; bore; burden
to swell; to expand; to inflate; to bulge
to offer; to propose; to suggest; to put forward; to request; to ask (for)
to take seriously; to take someone at their word; to believe (to be true)
doubt; question; uncertainty; skepticism; scepticism; suspicion
denial; negation; negation (logic); NOT operation
audience; spectator; spectators
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
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
to see (a doctor, etc.); to consult (someone)
majestic figure; imposing figure; impressive appearance; magnificent appearance
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
My goodness!; Good lord!; Holy cow!
relief; reassurance; recognition of right to land ownership (by the shogunate, a feudal lord, etc.); (arch.) living safely surrounded by walls
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
to talk oneself hoarse; to shout oneself hoarse
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
last night; yesterday evening
to push up; to force up; to pressure one's superiors; to burst out (of emotions, etc.); to fill one's heart
to bake; to plate; to print; to burn into one's memory; to sear into one's consciousness
to imitate; to copy; to mock; to trace; to forge
downhill; downward slope; descent; decline; waning; ebb
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
isolation; separation; remoteness; seclusion; reclusion; inaccessibility
high and low; rise and fall
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
limits; boundary; domain; area (e.g. in programming languages)
composite; combined; complex
to be noticeable; to notice; to catch one's eye
busyness; a lot of things to do; frequent use; heavy use (of); many uses