pretext; history; past; according to ...; ... says
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
every evening; night after night
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
passage; pathway; roadway; avenue; aisle
to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
third day of the month; three days
within; inside of; less than
to become blue; to turn green; to turn pale; to blanch (with fear)
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
commonplace; ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; mundane
region; limits; stage; level
as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect
unfounded (e.g. rumour); groundless; baseless; completely untrue
self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial
unnatural death; accidental death; violent death
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
duration; continuance; survival; persistence; retention
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated
annual (plant); first-year student
to expand; to swell (out); to get big; to become inflated
superstition; superstitious belief
four-eyed; pattern of four squares
dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
Hamburg steak; hamburger steak
to smell; to smell of; to have a smell
how should I put it?; what shall I say?; well, you know; like
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
feeling; sense; impression
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)