tie up; bind; sum; total amount; judo choking (strangling) techniques; last meal eaten when going restaurant hopping; completion
news of someone's death; obituary
best; most (valuable player); top (quality); grade A; ace; finest
circumference; girth; tour; pilgrimage; circulation (e.g. of blood)
to bloom; to blossom; to become lively (esp. of conversation); to become animated; to experience a golden age
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
reason for being; raison d'être
end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle
tide; tidal current; tendency; drift; trend
sweeping conquest; sweeping over; conquering; invading
clear; clear-cut; lucid; unequivocal; explicit
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
symbol; emblem; mental image; representation; idea
picture element; image pixel; PEL
to love greatly; to love beyond all else
rustic simplicity; homeliness; unsophisticated; naive; honest; simple
praise; glorification; extolment
inspiration; afflatus; ability to sense the supernatural (esp. ghosts, etc.)
so (e.g. so much, so close, so many, so few)
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
vertical stripes; striped fabric
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
outside world; physical world
objectivity; objective; object (philosophical)
separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation
inversion; opposition; conflicting; repulsion; contradiction
to be consistent; to be coherent
easily; readily; with ease; without trouble
viewpoint; point of view; way of understanding; way of appreciating; how to look at something (e.g. noh, train schedule)