Vocabulary

restraint; restriction; control; check

to pickpocket; to steal

pickpocket

to wrench open

to bend by twisting; to twist; to contort

to screw in

to wring off; to wrest from

to twist (e.g. someone's arm); to wrench

to twist off

to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another

rubbing one's hands together

to stub out (e.g. a cigarette); to crush out; to smother (fire)

tuft of hair under the temple; sideburns; sidelocks

(therapeutic) massage

quarrel; trouble; dispute

to tease; to make fun of; to poke fun at; to make a crack about; to chaff; to kid

to catch and tie up; to apprehend; to arrest; to capture

rear gate (esp. of castle); back entrance

to droop

to lean coquettishly against; to snuggle into; to nestle into

plectrum (for a shamisen, biwa, etc.); pick

to send (something) flying; to splatter

to flatly refuse; to reject; to spurn

syllabic nasal (in Japanese)

pestle

to raise (one's head)

grenade

grenade launcher

falling dead; perishing; dying

taking into consideration; making allowances (for)

drought; long spell of dry weather

intimacy; familiarity; closeness

blurring (e.g. of an image); blur; gradient; gradation; shading

to blur; to shade off; to gradate

ambiguity

obscure; vague; ambiguous

dim; hazy; vague; indistinct; faint; fuzzy

vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry

shackles; fetters; irons; handcuffs; restraint; constraint

Chinese matrimony vine (Lycium chinense); Chinese wolfberry; goji