custom; general rule; convention; usually; generally; normally
suddenly and precipitately; take a sudden turn
disaster; accident; calamity; catastrophe
lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily
isolation; being alone; being friendless
first-year (university) student; freshman; (one of the) first graduates of a new school
programme; program; plans; arrangements
setting up specially; special installation
requisition; commandeering; conscription
apprenticeship; probation; learning by observation; apprentice; trainee; probationer
to neglect; to ignore; to disregard; to make light of
full bloom (esp. of cherry blossom); full blossom
sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; with a bob of the head
for today; for the time being
conclusion; end; finish; supervision; management; control
to knock (someone) down; to floor; to beat up; to deal a devastating blow (from which one cannot recover); to devastate (emotionally); to crush
long, slender and well-proportioned; smooth, continuous (movement)
(made of) leather; leather-bound
presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...
dyer's knotweed (Persicaria tinctoria, used to produce indigo dye); indigo (dye); indigo (colour)
substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality
intonation; accent; modulation; inflection
to wash again; to reconsider
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
to mix in (e.g. an ingredient)
identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin)
(giving) instruction (esp. in the secrets of an art, discipline, etc.); initiation; teaching; passing on; imparting
adversary; opposition; hostile forces
(fixing) boundaries for religious practices; prohibition (of items, people, spirits, etc. that would hinder Buddhist practice); fence between inner and outer sanctums in a temple; (arch.) short two or three-fold lattice around the front desk of a store; barrier; dimensional barrier
countermeasure; counter-measure
counterintelligence; counterespionage
languid; weary; listless; melancholy
disquieting; threatening; turbulent; restless; unsettled; disturbing
present continuous tense; present progressive form; ongoing; (currently) active; currently in progress
to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention