first class; first rank; one degree; one level; most; best
crushing evil; destroying heresy
king; ruler; tycoon; magnate; king (of the senior player)
to pile up; to accumulate
stochastic; probabilistic
frequency (of appearance)
penance; austerities; mortification; difficult work; strenuous task
debt; loan; liabilities; number of games under the .500 mark
modifying the random-number generation; RNG manipulation
lottery; raffle; drawing (of lots); balloting
machine; mechanism; instrument; appliance; apparatus
dancing; dance; iteration mark (used to represent repetition of the previous character); Bon Festival dance; Lantern Festival dance; eating live seafood (e.g. squid, ice gobies) while it is still moving; soft spot (in the skull of an infant)
first person (to do); person going first; first place; top position; person in the top position
pull; patronage; tug; room to move the camera back; drawing back; pulling back
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
undeserved good luck; luck of the devil; dumb luck; bad luck
to grant (a wish); to accede; to comply with; to heed
filling (up); replenishing; filling in (a tooth); loading (a gun with ammunition, a camera with film, etc.); packing; plugging
to hold one's breath (in fear, anxiety, etc.)
pocket tissue; small package of tissues
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else
easily mixed up (e.g. similar words); easily mistaken; confusing; misleading; equivocal; ambiguous
catch; catching; catch; shop tout; puller-in; catching (in swimming and boating); catching the water
foot-operated bellows; foot bellows; traditional Japanese clay furnace for smelting iron (operated with large foot bellows); Tatara furnace
traditional Japanese steel made from iron sand (esp. for use in swords)
Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps); mugwort (any plant of genus Artemisia); wormwood; sagebrush
with a clatter; with a rattle; (almost) empty; (mostly) vacant; raspy (voice); gravelly; with a gargle
water outlet; tap; faucet
dropping (of tears, dew, etc.); falling off; dropping off; inadvertently (coming to the surface); letting out (e.g. a secret)
clanging; empty; deserted
sense of relief; feeling of relief
to fill (with); to be filled with; to express (an emotion); to project (sadness, joy, etc.); to wear (e.g. a smile)
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
to let down one's guard; to relax one's guard
lion; left-hand (stone) guardian lion-dog at a Shinto shrine
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly