to retreat; to back off; to draw back; to step back; to shrink away
cotton plant (Gossypium spp.); batting; wadding; padding
old family; old-established family; one's old home; one's childhood home
large pink (Dianthus superbus var. longicalycinus); woman who displays the feminine virtues of old Japan
elevated walkway through the audience to the stage (kabuki); honourable end to a career
elbowroom; leeway; room; reserve; margin; allowance
mailbox; mail box; email box
to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush
to detain; to check; to restrain
to apologize; to apologise
care; attentiveness; attention; consideration (for others); solicitude
working adult; full-fledged member of society
I wish I had ...; I should have ...; it would have been better if I had ...
to play (games, sports); to enjoy oneself; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to meet up (with friends); to hang out
erasure; striking off; crossing out; cancellation; deletion
pushing back one's opponent while locked in close quarters; having a tendency towards; being close to
expressing emotion; drawing facial expressions
clear as day; perfectly obvious; plain as daylight
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
to produce; to yield; to cause; to result from; to arise; to be generated
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
verbalizing; putting into words
dad; dada; daddy; pa; papa; pappa
exercise; physical training; appeal; campaign; motion; movement
currently nowhere to be seen; unknown where it went; disappeared into thin air
to go out and away; to leave
echo (esp. one reverberating in the mountains); mountain god; mountain guardian deity
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
to bungle; to make things awkward
to step on a landmine; to really step in it; to screw up; to open up a can of worms
person who has escaped death; failed suicide; person who has outlived their time; dotard; doddering old man
ten to one; nine cases out of ten
investigation; examination; inquiry; enquiry; survey
role-playing; roleplaying
to quiet; to calm down; to compose oneself; to settle down