to walk behind someone; to follow in someone's footsteps
flight; desertion; escape
lowborn; humble; vulgar; coarse; shabby; greedy
to flatter; to play up to; to fawn on; to pander to; to cater to
to atone for; to expiate; to redeem; to make up for; to compensate for
to present; to submit; to tender; to hold out
remote region; frontier (district); border(land)
blind (devotion, faith, etc.); reckless
crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness
National Mobilization Law (1938)
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
distance; interval; gap; difference; estrangement
though imperfect; somehow; somehow or other
my husband; one's family; family member
to challenge (esp. in a lawsuit); to take on an opponent (in negotiations, contest, etc.)
one's heart; the mind; inner feelings; inmost thoughts; true motives
counter for long and narrow things such as guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
to fall into someone's hands; to pass into another's possession
main purpose; primary objective
nice-looking; seemingly fine; nice-sounding; polite-sounding; plausible (e.g. excuse); glib
unlimited; unrestricted; limitless
northeastern part; the northeast
yes; yea; aye; (arch.) to be so
to just appear; to be half out; to be on the tip of one's tongue
move (in shogi, chess, etc.)
unskillful; childish; immature; naive; artless; clumsy
sacrificial pawn; sacrificed piece; sacrifice
size; large and small (sizes); various sizes; daishō (matched pair of long and short swords); large and small drums; long months and short months; sic bo (Macao dice game)
emergency landing; forced landing; crash landing
to concentrate; to devote; to apply; to strain; to rack