effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
gesture; gesticulation; motion
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
to insert; to put in; to plant (a cutting); to strike; to arrange (flowers); to wear (a sword) in one's belt
to gather in a circle; to form a circle
ring; circle; hoop; wheel; circle (e.g. of friends)
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
hooray!; cheers!; bravo!; loud (e.g. applause); enthusiastic; tumultuous
first line (of a poem); first bars (of a melody)
to do oneself; to do by oneself; to start work (on); to commence
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
thick with smoke, moisture or odor; hard to breathe (air)
to hang over; to cover; to lie over; to fall on one's shoulders; to become one's responsibility; to become a burden
to trip someone up; to pull the carpet from under
hostility; antagonism; opposition
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
bright, clear and reverberate
lonely; dreary; desolate; few; scarce; sparse
fighting to be first; scrambling to take the lead
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
role (which someone or something plays in a given situation); part; contribution (to a given situation)
to volunteer; to undertake a challenge
to rage; to run amok (amuck); to tear around
clothing; dressing; binding (of a book)
admiration and devotion; hearty submission
running through; traversal
just because; even if; even though
as usual; as always; as before; as ever; still
brave woman; heroine; lady of character; Amazon
center; centre; middle; Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
to leave (to someone, esp. after one's death); to bequeath
French possession; French territory