main constituent; core; nucleus; subject
to break (into pieces); to smash; to shatter (someone's hopes, confidence, etc.); to crush; to simplify; to make easy to understand
loess; yellow ochre; yellow ocher; (arch.) Hades; (arch.) hell
prehistoric era; prehistoric times; prehistory
red iron oxide; red ocher
cinnabar; cinnabarite; cinnabar lacquer; cinnabar lacquerware
(raw) ore; unpolished gemstone
fearfully; timidly; cautiously; nervously
quotient; business; merchant; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (of China; approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
to read (a book, etc.) over again
staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock)
warm and gentle (mood); warm glow
set; suit; uniform collection; entirely; all; every one
practice; experience; habituation; being used to; being comfortable with; being experienced in
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
rough sketch; design; cartoon
furious facial expression
thickly; heavily; richly; severely; strongly
woodblock; (printing) block
text (of a book, document, etc.); body (of a letter); this passage; this sentence
to add (e.g. a postscript)
to apply for; to make an application; to propose (marriage); to offer (mediation); to make an overture (of peace); to challenge
former; previous; old; first move (in go, shogi, etc.); opening move
surprise attack; surprise visit; catching a person off guard
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
gushingly; copiously; profusely; in a steady stream
gofer; dogsbody; person who is made to do things or get things for someone else
to draw (conclusion); to deduce; to derive
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
being unfamiliar with a locality; not knowing one's way around; (lit.) not knowing one's right hand from the left; being clueless
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
to have one's faults exposed; to have one's secrets blown
absurd; nonsensical; preposterous
to be consistent; to be coherent
return (of something borrowed or entrusted); returning; giving back; repayment