necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
small quantity; little; little while; short distance
difficult problem; challenge
sensitive (person, heart, etc.); delicate (issue, problem, etc.); sensitive; fragile; delicate; delicate (fabric, shade, flavour, etc.)
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to stop talking; to break off; to pause
fleeting (glimpse, glance, etc.)
to lose hair; to become bald; to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
slapping on (stamp, sticker); flopping down
serious look (on one's face); straight face
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
sky; air; ether; firmament; the heavens
to float; to be suspended; to rise to the surface; to appear; to come to mind; to have inspiration
sermon; preaching; remonstration; scolding; lecturing
root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
to say; to speak; to tell; to talk
to scrutinize; to scrutinise
super-; ultra-; extremely; really; over; more than
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
secrecy; highly classified information
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
wild; in disarray; harum-scarum; hysteric
to stream; to flow (liquid, time, etc.); to be washed away; to be carried; to drift; to float (e.g. clouds); to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire)
bag; satchel; briefcase; basket
onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)
mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
look (esp. an angry or upset look); expression
to draw near; to draw closer; to press (e.g. for an answer); to hound
tool; means; ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.); counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.
salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
flapping (of a flag, fan, etc.); fluttering; pitter-patter (of footsteps); quickly (making progress); in quick succession
to shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
society; the world; the times
surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid