costume; fancy dress; masquerade; converted (cruiser)
welcome!; nice to see you!
passage; pathway; roadway; avenue; aisle
width; breadth; freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude; gap; difference (e.g. in price)
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
to dedicate; to make an offering; to supply; to store; to finish; to bring to a close; to restore (something to its place)
self first; striving to be first; scrambling for
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
this way (of doing); this method; this sort (of thing); this type
isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on
to stick to; to cling to; to adhere to; to become intimate (of a man and woman); to get close; to get married
unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; lewd; lascivious; obscene
to press against; to push against; to force against; to foist on (task, responsibility); to impose (one's will)
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
to compromise; to meet halfway; to step up to; to walk up to; to approach
to fill (with); to be filled with; to express (an emotion); to project (sadness, joy, etc.); to wear (e.g. a smile)
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
perception; sensation; awareness
comfortable; easy; calm; loose; spacious
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
sidelong glance; short grain (paper)
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
sentimental; mushy; sugary; saccharine; sickly-sweet
floating; drifting; weightlessness; softly; gently; lightly
to rise up (e.g. pillar of smoke); to go up
very loose; slowly; leisurely
tip of nose; before one's eyes; under one's nose; tip (of something)
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
to glare at each other; to confront each other
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
poisonous; venomous; hateful; detestable; gaudy; garish
sweet voice; seductive voice
pumpkin (Cucurbita sp.); squash
to divide; to cut; to halve; to break; to crack; to dilute; to fall below
first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
to ask a question; to begin to ask a question
to compete (with each other); to contend for; to vie for; to rival
indecisive; irresolute; shilly-shally; vacillating
to act as a go-between (for); to mediate; to arrange; to entertain (guests); to treat; to receive
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much
with a smooth, unhindered motion; speedily and without delay
root and branch; thoroughly; by the roots; completely; all