hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that
Tendai sect (of Buddhism)
isolation; being alone; being friendless
what's that?; what the...
fingernail mark; scratch; scars (e.g. of war); traces (of damage); ravages
sorrow; grief; anguish; trouble; affliction; anxiety
heresy; evil ways; sorcery; black magic; netherworld; world outside the six realms where evil spirits roam
tool; means; ingredients (added to soup, rice, etc.); counter for sets of armor, utensils, furniture, etc.
acting rashly; running wildly; runaway (process); reckless baserunning
staying behind; remaining; residual
gazing steadily at; observing (a person) closely; maintain a watch over
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
treatment; service; handling; management
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
wild; unruly; arrogant; endless (e.g. spending); uncontrolled; rampant (e.g. weeds)
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge
to push aside; to brush or thrust aside; to remove; to get rid of
private opinion; personal view; personal opinion
opposite; opposition; versus; vs.; to (e.g. "winning a game five to three"); equal footing
specialist; expert; professional; authority; pundit
exchange (e.g. cultural); interchange; interaction; alternating current; AC
influence; clout; leverage
disliking people similar to oneself
opposition; rebellion; rebounding; recoiling; rally (e.g. in stock prices); recovery
normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type
lukewarm; tepid; disagreeably warm (e.g. bath)
to be too numerous; to be too much
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
to put one's hand on; to touch
undivided attention; concentration
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray