drop of water; polka dots
to be in danger of; to be liable to
growing light (e.g. at dawn); pale; appearing dumb; talking in an obvious way
haze (esp. in spring); mist; dimness (of sight)
sum; harmony; peace; Japan; Japanese-style
kana; Japanese syllabary (i.e. hiragana, katakana)
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt
condition; term; requirement; qualification; prerequisite
minute; fine; delicate; accurate; precise; elaborate
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
to clash; to collide; to conflict; to meet (by chance); to come across; to run into
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
edged tool; cutlery; shrewd businessman
desperation; struggle to the death
treatment; handling; arrangement; addition; musical accompaniment (in noh)
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
repulse; repelling (e.g. the enemy); driving back
seven lives; seven generations
foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury
1,000,000; one million; million; many
bump; lump; protuberance; swelling
what kind of; whatever sort of; no matter what; however much
details; particulars; whole story; sequence of events; chronology; circumstances
kind; courteous; intimate; (arch.) becoming intimate; (arch.) having an intimate relationship (sometimes esp. a homosexual relationship)
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
misappropriation; embezzlement
ruffian; villain; peculiar person; idiosyncratic person; tricky thing; something that is more than it seems
nightmare; incubus; succubus; demon appearing in a dream
being cleared (doubt, misgivings, etc.); being dispelled; melting away; melting (of ice)
rhinitis; coryza; nasal inflammation
one's nature; one's destiny; custom; tradition; habit
roof tile; tiled roof; objects crowded together (e.g. houses)
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competiton in which there are several evenly-matched participants; hotly-contested game (match, market, etc.)
to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms
each house; every house; many houses
faint; indistinct; dim; (arch.) few; (arch.) a little
to grow light; to become white; to turn grey (gray)