end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
winnow; winnowing basket; winnowing fan
both in name and reality; both in name and substance
remaining time; days left
glaring at each other; confrontation; standoff; face-off
outer wall (e.g. castle); outer block (enclosure); outline; contour
to span; to bridge; to cross; to straddle
proposal; proposition; suggestion
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
place; point; part; counter for places, parts, passages, etc.
casualties; injuries and deaths
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
reinforcement; strengthening
sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve; vicinity (esp. of a bridge); foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
explosion; rupture; break off
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
to take along; to hold in the hand; to hang (e.g. from the shoulder or waist)
shellfish; seashell; shell
to ring; to sound; to be popular; to be esteemed; to state; to insist
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
to die by drowning; to drown
change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange
hiving off; swarming; dividing a fief
loss of eyesight; loss of vision; going blind; blindness
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
apparent; obvious; very clear
plan; meter; measuring device; (in) total; total (of)
to detach; to decapitate; to cut loose; to let loose; to dismember
job transfer; job relocation; intra-company transfer
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
if so; in that case; in that situation
to lessen; to decrease; to diminish
duckweed; rootless person; wanderer
authority; power; influence
permeation (of thought, ideology, culture, etc.); infiltration (e.g. of ideas); permeation (of a liquid, etc.); soaking; osmosis
inherited; family (heirloom); ancestral
to sleep; to die; to rest (in peace); to lie idle (e.g. of resources); to lie unused; (arch.) to close one's eyes
following (a precedent, former policy, etc.); continuing with; sticking to; observing