care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
to get lost; to become lost; to go astray
competitor; contestant; player; athlete
speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green; recruiting of university students before the agreed date
piece of junk; worn-out article; clumsy; useless; dismantled car; hitting (with fist)
invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion
to wash away; to rinse off
to talk back; to answer back; to retort; to say over; to repeat (what one has said)
to be insolent; to be arrogant; to be impudent; to be rude
close call; narrow margin; the eleventh hour
irresistibly; suddenly; to be turned on; to be horny
irrefutable evidence; smoking gun; solid evidence; incontestable proof; dead giveaway
to pull from both ends; to pull from both sides; to play tug of war
to lose composure; to be upset; to be flurried; to lose one's head (through shock)
(national) capital (city); metropolis
shifting (the burden) onto; ill effects; negative consequences; burden
singing together; singing in union; chorus; ensemble singing; choral singing; chorus
departed spirit; soul of the dead; ghost; apparition
dark red; dark brown; reddish brown
to look away (from); to avert one's gaze; to disregard; to ignore; to escape (from); to turn away (from)
hornworm (caterpillar of a hawk moth); (hairless) caterpillar
children's song; nursery rhyme
Homo economicus; economic human; financial expert; businessperson
to take a position (e.g. on an issue); to adopt a stance
shooting star; falling star; meteor; blaze (wide white stripe down the face of a horse)
state of ecstasy; state of rapture; trance; senile dementia
challenging (an unknown person); asking a person's identity
elementary particle; particle
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
to fill in a hole; to plug a gap (money, personnel, etc.); to make up for a deficiency; to cover a deficit
(department of) psychosomatic medicine
human work; human agency; art; artificiality
details (of an incident, event, etc.); whole story; course of events; facts; circumstances; particulars
bookworm; bibliophile; bibliophage
national defence forces; national security forces
land route; overland route; by land; overland
journey; trip; travels; during the journey; on the way; while travelling