don't you think?; indicates question
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
to beg; to pester; to plead; to coax; to hound; to importune
to bend oneself forward (esp. in curiosity or excitement); to hang out (e.g. over a balcony)
very; considerably; by no means; not readily; middle; half-way point
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
function; facility; faculty; feature
biggest; greatest; largest; maximum
Honshū (largest of the four main islands of Japan); Honshu
place; situation; position; location
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
multiplication table; times table
century; era; of the century (e.g. fight of the century)
prediction; prophecy; prognostication
poem; poetry; verse; Chinese poem
coincidence; agreement; conformity; consistency; cooperation
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
near-field earthquake; local earthquake, esp. with a shallow focus directly under a populated area
devastating; catastrophic; crushing
blow; shock; strike; batting
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
heel (of foot, shoe, stocking, etc.)
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
major volcanic eruption; large-scale eruption; violent eruption; great eruption
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
plural; multiple; several
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
nuclear power plant; nuclear power station
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
radioactive contamination
almost; roughly; approximately
the whole area; all areas