advance guard; vanguard; avant-garde (e.g. music)
composition; construction; formation; makeup; structure; organization
Imperial Guard (Meiji); personal guard
appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
succeeding; following; trailing; next
counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
fine line; weight of thread; slit-eyed
slant eyes; almond-shaped eyes; eyes that are turned up at the corners
to be bloodcurdling; to be ghastly
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
to squash; to crush; to flatten
to strain one's eyes; to look closely; to stare at
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to boost; to force up; to push up
shrill voice; piercing cry; shriek; scream
to assume the air of ...; to behave like ...; to put on airs; to be self-important
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)
scream; shriek; shout; exclamation
to diffuse; to spread throughout; to prevail; to become widespread; to reach everyone
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
retreat; falling back; recession; waning; backspace (key)
to warm up to; to become enthusiastic about; to be elated
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
to be prolonged; to drag on
even if I say so myself; for me (to do such a thing)
contradiction; inconsistency
to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be among; to be one of
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind