rule; reign; government; governing
insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competition in which there are several evenly matched participants; hotly contested game (match, market, etc.)
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
retrogression; reversal; relapse; doubling back; backtracking
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence
to start a journey; to embark on a trip; to set forth; to hit the trail
title (e.g. Doctor, Professor, Lord); job title; position (in a company); degree; status; rank
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...; it's obvious that ...
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
to accompany; to follow; to keep up with
blunder; (careless) mistake; error
to shine on; to illuminate; to compare (with); to refer to
full view; total picture; whole story; full particulars; all the details
small hill; low hill; hillock
together with; same; both; all; including ...
travelling clothes; traveling clothes; travelling outfit; traveling outfit
lattice; counter for large bundles (e.g. 10 sheafs of rice, 200 sheets of calligraphy paper, 20 whistling arrows, 100 fish); handbreadth (unit for measuring the length of arrows); fascicle
gold nugget; gold bullion; gold bar; gold ingot
here and there; various places; all around; muddled; confused; in the wrong order
soap; soapland; brothel where one can bathe with prostitutes
and; or; and the like; and so forth; and what not
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
hot spring; onsen; hot spring resort; hot spring spa
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving
pipe; tube; bobbin (in a shuttle or spinning wheel)
doubt; suspicion; question; strangeness
li (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: fire, south)
shock (emotional); shock (physical); impact; crisis (esp. financial); event that rattles the markets; (circulatory) shock
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much
official divorce registration papers
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
resignation; acceptance; consolation
not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses