almost completely empty; virtually empty; inadequately defended; undefended; unguarded
assistance; support; subsidy; supplement; spotting (in weight training)
having at one's mercy; trifling with; toying with; playing with; making a fool of; leading around by the nose
optimization; optimisation
ogre; demon; spirit of a deceased person; ogre-like person (i.e. fierce, relentless, merciless, etc.); it (in a game of tag, hide-and-seek, etc.); seeker; Chinese "ghost" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to bend; to warp; to lose heart
according to plan; as planned; on target
to drill; to bore; to hit the mark; to get to the heart of (the matter); (arch.) to put on; (arch.) to wear
the vertical; height; front-to-back; length; north-to-south; vertical (relationship)
diagonally; obliquely; slantingly; slantwise
borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)
on a line; on the borderline (between); on the verge (of); on the brink (of)
densely covered in thick hair; hairy; fuzzy
habit of idleness (laziness); indolence
anthropoid ape; anthropoid; ape
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook
(not) even with; (not) even using
to bring down (an animal, opponent, etc.); to kill; to shoot dead; to shoot down
exhaustion; consumption; using up; dissipation; waste
criticism; commentary; review
battle formation; military formation
sole; single; solo; independence; singleness; singularity
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
cannot be compared (with); being no match (for)
preliminary test or trial; tryout; workout; warm-up
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
adding (an extra amount); increasing; tacking on (a charge)
group; party; team; organization; organisation; association
to some degree; up to a point; to some extent
purging (data); purge (esp. of public officials)
nudity; stark naked; in one's bare skin; penniless
(one's) shame and public reputation; (one's) sense of shame and concern for appearances
to steal; to rob; to deceive; to trick; to graze (in passing); to skim; to appear and quickly disappear (a thought, a smile, etc.)
right-angled parallelepiped; cuboid; rectangular solid; rectangular prism
falling with a splat; oozing; dripping
classification; categorization; sorting
cave; tunnel; tunnel tomb (Kofun period)
reason of being; raison d'être; meaning of one's existence
indescribable; inexpressible; unspeakable
festival; feast; harassment by an Internet pitchfork mob; online shaming; galore (as in "goals galore"); frenzy
person from the countryside; countryman; countryfolk; provincial person; bumpkin; hick