Vocabulary

poetic

prospecting; trial digging

to gather (bringing something); to gather (to exchange something)

to take away; to carry away

to be lifted; to be raised; to rise; to go up

eyes and ears; seeing and hearing

self-introduction

self-employed profession (e.g. actor, artist); liberal profession

autonomic nerve

steward; butler

incontinence

discourtesy; impoliteness

sprint; dash; scampering

playhouse; theatre; theater

to hire; to lease; to requisition; to charter

to withdraw; to abandon (e.g. a lawsuit)

head of family; head house

cessation of publication

to move house; to move to a new house (or apartment, etc.)

decathlon

gun point; muzzle

to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)

to happen to meet; to come across; to run into; to bump into

outstanding; excellent; remarkable

one's destination; place where someone is going; place where someone has gone

firmly rooted; deep-seated

reinsurance

beloved; dearest

miscellaneous; mixed; unorganized

sourness; acidity

(Ogura) Hyakunin Isshu; classical Japanese anthology of one hundred Japanese waka by one hundred poets

ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious

inaccurate; incorrect; inexact; imprecise

inadequacy; inappropriateness; unfitness; impropriety

difference; diversity; irregularity; disorder

indifference; lack of enthusiasm; inattentiveness

committal; reference; submission (e.g. to committee); commitment

floating

competitive spirit; spirit of rivalry; aversion to losing

winds and clouds; nature; the elements