to avoid, to dodge / to preemptively avoid something: to prevent / to push to the side, to exclude

山賊: bandit

風俗: a custom; manners; mores

科目: subject (at school); course / 寡黙: reticence

寡黙: reticent

区間: segment, section, especially of railway track; interval

(probably obsolete) to snore

永続: permanence

草薙の剣: the Kusanagi no Tsurugi or "Grasscutting Longsword", one of the three sacred treasures comprising the Imperial Regalia of Japan

草那芸之大刀: an alternate name of the Sword of Kusanagi