private car; private automobile
hero; heroine; Eroica Symphony (Beethoven, 1804); Heroic Polonaise (Chopin)
mass communication; mass media
dim; hazy; vague; indistinct; faint; fuzzy
gathering to remember a deceased person; memorial gathering; farewell party; goodbye party; send-off party
zipper; zip; zip fastener
ascent; uphill; upward slope; (gradual) upturn; increase
to start rowing; to begin to row; to row out (e.g. to sea); to pull out; to start pedaling; to begin to pedal
two people riding together (on a bike, etc.); riding double
feeling good; feeling nice; feeling pleasant
to stand in a row (e.g. shops on a street); to line in a row; to line; to be equal to; to be on a par with
(many) mountains; very much (wanting to do something one cannot); greatly; so many; a lot of
clop clop; rumble rumble; sound of something being boiled
two characters; two letters; (arch.) garlic chives (Allium tuberosum); (arch.) Chinese chives
heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge; great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth
volume (sound level); volume; bulk; volume (book); volume (storage area); potentiometer
lifeboat; friend in need; helping hand; timely help
mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)
to draw back; to leave (e.g. the area); to withdraw
to sob convulsively; to heave with sobs
to stop (plug) one's ears
bullet; round; lost messenger; truant messenger; bull's-eye (candy); hitman
break; pause; halt; (temporary) stop
prone (to); liable (to); apt (to); tending (to)
reverie; meditation; anxiety; thought; pensiveness
dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops
to hold one's nose; to pinch one's nose
alien (from another planet)
suddenly; abruptly; impulsively
thick glasses; (lit.) bottle bottom glasses
fashionable color; fashionable colour
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
battement (ballet movement)
to praise (to the skies); to sing the praises (of); to extol