retreat; withdrawal; retirement
invasion; incursion; raid; aggression; intrusion; trespass
groping (for); fumbling around (for); searching (for an answer, solution, etc.); trying to find
wandering (around); roaming; loitering; prowling; hanging around
gap; opening; break; interval; unguarded moment; carelessness
interruption; discontinuance; suspension; cancellation (of a planned event); calling off
tomfoolery; monkey business
planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)
to shorten; to narrow; to close; to shrink
intuition; instinct; hunch
recollection; reminiscence
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
commemorable; worth commemorating; momentous; monumental
to house; to contain; to carry (a baby); to be pregnant; (arch.) to give lodging to; (arch.) to accommodate
to keep a promise; to keep one's word
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
long ago; a long time ago; already
to lay bare; to expose; to reveal
evening; night; nighttime
to call out; to ask someone to come
call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected
to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
equal; identical; the same; no different (from); just like; equivalent
leap; jump; stepping out into the wider world; becoming active on a wider stage; rapid progress; dramatic development
to slip out (e.g. of a comment, remark, etc.); to utter unintentionally; to pour from one's lips (of words); to flow freely (of speech); to rush out of one's mouth
origin; genesis; opening; start; beginning
strained (argument, interpretation, etc.); farfetched (theory, view, etc.); forced; laboured; twisted (reasoning)
distortion; stretch; strained interpretation; technicality; casuistry; sophistry
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence
cover (e.g. for illegal activity); front; Dendropanax trifidus (species of flowering plant); straw raincoat that makes one invisible
execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears; crucifixion