candidate; contender; prospect; candidacy; candidature; nomination
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting (a difficulty); overcoming; exceeding; passing
stairs; rank; grade; guide; guidebook; slanted ladder (exercise equipment)
to the end; to the bitter end; to the last; after all; it must be remembered; only
farewell; adieu; goodbye; so long
eternity; permanence; perpetuity; Eikyū era (1113.7.13-1118.4.3)
and then; and so; and; so then
stop (bus, tram, etc.); station; stopping place
nonchalantly; calmly; as if nothing happened
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
storm area (winds of 25mps or more)
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
to take one's leave; to excuse oneself; to resign (from); to step down; to decline; to turn down
to stop walking; to pause
English name (for a country, etc.); English-derived nickname (used by someone with a non-Western personal name); Western name
(having) two choices; choice between two things
vocabulary; lexicon; lexis; terminology
Japanese (people, language, style)
Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter)
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
small-sized; small-scale; miniature; small; little; tiny
rapidly; quickly; briskly; booming (e.g. of a drum)
to push on; to plunge forward; to push one's way to
gum; rubber; eraser; condom
... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?"); ... on earth (e.g. "who on earth?")
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
unchanged (from long ago); as it was in the past; same old; traditional
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
little by little; bit by bit
arrowhead; target of a flying arrow; brunt (of an attack); the very moment (when); the point (of doing)
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping)
to meet; to face someone; to co-star; to appear together; to be matched; to face against
man who escorts a woman home, only to make a pass at her; supernatural wolf stalking humans in the woods
wind that blows from north to north-east during spring and summer along the coast of the Sea of Japan
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)