probability; likelihood; chances
military service; combat experience
appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
withdrawal; secession; separation; breakaway
victory; triumph; win; conquest; success
later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant
persistent; obstinate; tenacious; relentless; insistent; importunate
it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but
hiding place; hideout; refuge; retreat; hideaway
possession; retention; maintenance; holding; keeping
home ground; home field; one's haunt; one's stamping ground; one's domain
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
familiarity; intimacy; acquaintance
to rest; to suspend; to give relief
number of times; frequency; count
hearer; listener; audience; interviewer; questioner
role; part; job; assignment
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
balance of power (in a relationship); power dynamic
to be completely absorbed in; to fall for (something)
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
to part (from); to part company (with); to split (with); to break off relations (with)
that field; the authorities (esp. the police); the yakuza; organized crime circles
breaking up (a meeting, gathering, etc.); dispersal (e.g. of a crowd); dissolution (of a company, organization, etc.); winding-up; dissolution (of the Diet, Parliament, etc.)
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
the same generation; coeval
to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around
snugly; cosily; carefree; easily; freshly made and still warm; imprudently
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
poor; pitiful; piteous; pitiable
attendant's booth (in a bathhouse changing room); door-keeper's stand; watcher's seat
foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
memory; sense; experience
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
state of mind; mental state; mental attitude
(distant) future; future existence; world beyond the grave; future (tense)
proportion; proportional representation section (of an election)
show; display; pretensions; pose; posture
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)