duty; obligation; responsibility
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
failure; mistake; blunder
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
to be urgent; to be pressing; to be imminent
written thing (e.g. book, musical composition); works
sublimation; sublimating (an emotion, impulse, etc.); channelling; diverting
one's characteristics as a writer; characteristics of a creator
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation
such a stupid ...; what a crazy ...; no way!; what nonsense!; how can that be?
plan; scheme; plot; design; project; intention
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
incident; affair; happening; event
to make a fist; to clench one's fist
as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); just like (someone)
I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one
day by day; by the day; (arch.) daily; (arch.) every day
to laugh away; to laugh off
to be certain of; to have faith in; to believe completely; to trust (someone completely)
nothing but; none other than
the way in which something came about; origin; structure; organization; the way something is constructed
kind; tender-hearted; compassionate
to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
fourth day of the month; four days
to show up; to appear; to turn up
to visit frequently; to haunt
trade; buying and selling; trafficking (e.g. of humans, arms, drugs); dealing
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
setsubun; last day of winter in the traditional Japanese calendar (usu. February 3 or 4), day of the bean scattering ceremony; last day of any season (according to the traditional Japanese calendar)
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
to experience chest pain; to have a pain in one's chest; to feel sick at heart; to have one's heart ache; to be anguished
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
to rub; to chafe; to strike (match); to lose (e.g. a match); to forfeit; to squander one's money (e.g. through gambling, Pachinko, etc.)
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity