attitude; posture; preparedness; readiness
important point; emphasis; iteration mark; colon (punctuation)
other than; excluding; without
racking one's brains; worrying oneself; being anxious
origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature
calculation; counting; (dealing with) figures; cardinality
widow; divorced woman not remarried; unmarried woman
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
leaping; activity; leapfrog (over a problem); making a leap (e.g. in logic); making great strides; making rapid progress
confrontation; to face; to confront; to encounter
great war; great battle; world war
defeat; lost battle; losing a war
diffidence; losing one's nerve; feeling awkward; feeling timid; being daunted
to lurk; to be hidden; to be concealed; to lie dormant; to be latent
to give rise to; to cause
character (of a person); personality; disposition; characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.)
hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
surging waves; raging billows; turbulent; tempestuous; tumultuous
fear; horror; anxiety; concern; uneasiness; reverence
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
subconsciousness; subconscious (awareness)
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
counter for birds, rabbits, etc.
chōnin (Edo-period social class of town-dwelling commoners, esp. landowning merchants); townspeople; townsfolk; tradespeople
huge win; overwhelming victory
congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
kanji radical that runs from the left to the bottom part of the kanji; kanji enclosure-type radical
calm; composed; leisurely
type of dyeing method or pattern; silk printed by the Yuzen process
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
citizen; citizenry; city inhabitant; townspeople; bourgeoisie; middle class
control; management; supervision
strictly; severely; rigidly
various; varied; diverse; all sorts of
groundless rumor (rumour)
invisibly; secretly; privately