mimesis; mimicry; camouflage
news coverage; collecting data (e.g. for an article); covering (something for media); interview
good-natured person; good person; (one's) lover; boyfriend; girlfriend
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
siege; encirclement; envelopment; surrounding; besiegement
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
salary reduction; salary cut
as you see; as you can see
group; party; team; squad; section
to blow away; to blow off; to dispel; to drive away; to talk big
movement; move; motion; trend; development; change
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
(adding) fuel to the fire
class (e.g. school); grade; rank; kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense
to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous
to gain time; to play for time; to buy time
arrangements; plan; programme; program; preparations
after a long time; for the first time in a while
personality; style; appearance
fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred
to harden; to solidify; to become firm; to become certain; to gather (together); to assemble
part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
skin; outer skin; integument; husk; hull; shell
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
edge (of a knife or sword); prong (of an electrical plug)
human nature; human heart; human spirit; public feeling; people's sentiments
company; group; class; troop; rank; file
Kagutsuchi; fire deity who burned to death his mother Izanami during childbirth (and was therefore beheaded by his father Izanagi)
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
dragon (esp. a Chinese dragon); naga; semi-divine human-cobra chimera in Hindu and Buddhist mythology; promoted rook
spear; lance; javelin; lance; (arch.) jeering
real name (of a deceased person or a noble); posthumous name
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to cozy up (to); to butter up