value analysis; volt-ampere; visual aid
meow; miaow; cat; sexual intercourse; making out
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
to break into (houses here and there); to rampage
to grow senile; to be childish with age; to be mentally slow; to be befuddled; to play stupid; to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine)
target area (e.g. archery); range (e.g. rifle, firing)
accredited master (of a performing art); being famous; being popular; famous person
worst; poor and boring; uncool
weird; disgusting; sickening
hollow; low ground; basin; pit; dip; depression
to curse; to cast a spell; to haunt; to cause a bad result; to bring about a negative outcome
historical document; archives; old manuscript; pre-Meiji era document addressed to someone in particular
fuel consumption; gas mileage
long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle
source of river; fountainhead
ghost that appears at sea during a shipwreck; something strange or suspicious; idiot; fool; noh mask for roles involving dead or ghost characters
having had enough (of); fed up (with); sick and tired (of); to learn one's lesson; to learn from a bad experience
to one's heart's content; following one's heart's desires
affected; smug; pompous; conceited; snobby; pretentious
survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; (lit.) the weak are meat the strong do eat
holly olive (Osmanthus heterophyllus); false holly; holly; spotnape ponyfish (Leiognathus nuchalis)
hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour
lump (of flour, etc.); clump (of ground meat, etc.)
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
snare; trap (for catching wild game, etc.); trap (i.e. ruse, subterfuge, etc.)
offering (e.g. to the gods); votive offering
family; clan; sect; school; group of related sumo stables
more than usual; especially; particularly
to take advantage of; to impose on; to make an entry (in an account book)
to exorcise; to cleanse; to purify
bodyguard; bouncer; bar (e.g. on a door); bolt; stick or pole used for self-defence
to stagnate; to be delayed; to be left undone; to be overdue (of a payment); to fall into arrears; to be outstanding
to have no chance (of succeeding)
aloneness; loneliness; solitude
kind; sort; type; equal; match; peer