stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration
crack; fissure; rift (in a relationship); split; crack
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)
legendary beast; magical beast
strange; odd; peculiar; queer; curious
to place (in position); to fix; to install; to seat (someone); to settle (upon something); to fix (e.g. one's gaze)
to stagnate; to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to become sluggish; to become dull; to be delayed
to get tired of; to tire of; to lose interest in; to become sated; to become satiated; to have one's fill
(fighting) spirit; motivation; shout (for getting in the right mood to deal with something, etc.); cheer; kiai; short shout when performing an attacking move
to cut corners; to be shoddy; to slack off; to play a tenuki; to tenuki
what?!; what did you say?!; why?; what for?; anyone; anything
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
stinginess; miserliness; shabby; cheap; petty; narrow-minded
quickly; promptly; immediately; indifferently; coldly
branch road; byroad; side street; digression
chalk; choke (hold); choke (of an engine)
to feel around for; to fumble for; to investigate; to probe into; to explore (parts unknown); to enjoy (natural beauty)
dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding
to search for; to seek for; to look for
possibility; chance; potential; potentiality; possibility (modal property of a proposition containing no logical contradiction)
probability; likelihood; chances
at the top of one's voice
simultaneously; all at once; in unison
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
to well up; to burst; to arise
to be mixed; to be blended with; to be combined; to associate with; to mingle with; to interest
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
to speak; to hear a voice
echo; reverberation; response; reaction; repercussions
(how) many times; (how) often
to emboss; to carve in relief; to bring to the fore; to accentuate; to throw into relief
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
to reach the point where ...; to come to ...; to come to be that ...; to start to ...; to begin to ...
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
device; contrivance; trick; trap; (small) scale; half finished; commencement
root of an evil; source of a problem; source of trouble; cause of misfortune
exterior; outside; outer; external; lateral
very; extremely; exceedingly; top; highest; best
common; ordinary; conventional; customary
(one's) figure; build; physique; style
worthy of special mention
echo; reverberation; spirit of a tree; tree spirit
vitality; (one's) life force
dull (e.g. a knife); blunt; thickheaded; obtuse; dull (sound, color, etc.); dim (light)