worry; care; anxiety; mental exhaustion
derisory; negligible; minimal; nominal; imperceptible
arrogance; haughtiness; conceitedness
battle of wits; contest of wits
various places; several sources
biological child; one's own child
detached building; solitary house; room detached from main house; separation from; loss of interest in; independence of
cunning; crafty; wily; sly
dissection; autopsy; analysis
guinea pig (Cavia porcellus); subject of an experiment; (human) guinea pig
evaluation; criticism; commenting on; assessment; estimation
to go out of use; to become obsolete; to die out; to go out of fashion
one's best interests; one's own good
attacking one opponent then immediately attacking another
(musical) time; tempo; beat; the moment; the instance; chance
to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of
self-determination; suicide
to bear fruit; to take effect
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
smell of something rotten; rotten smell
It's nothing!; Don't mention it!
to force one's way through
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
every time; whenever; as; whether; in (either case)
to recover; to rally; to improve; to pick up
softness; gentleness; weakness
fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress
as if ...; as if to say ...; as though ...
general mobilization; general mobilisation
self-esteem; self-respect; self-importance; conceit; pride
wonderful; astounding; marvellous
to be allowed to practice with a partner of higher skill (esp. in sumo)