to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression)
moment; instant; kshana; duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second); shortest possible interval of time
gap; space; break; interlude; chink (in one's armor, armour); chance
to turn; to rotate; to pass around; to send around; to move (someone or something to where its needed); to send; to turn (to a new use)
to flick off; to give (someone) the flick; to send (something) flying; to hit (a person); to knock down
to blow off; to be blown off
trifling with; toying with; playing with; tossing about (a ship)
to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
to strike someone a blow; to bring down (a stick on someone's head)
crisis; critical situation; emergency; pinch
intuition; instinct; insight; hunch; immediacy
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
to laugh at; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of; to sneer at
to slip through; to slip past; to evade
heated wire; infrared rays; heat rays
hollow; mid-air; air; sky
frank; direct; plain; straightforward; point-blank; concise
to shave off; to scrape off
to shoot (arrow, bolt, dart)
to burn completely; to consume (by fire); to burn to nothing; to burn to the ground; to reduce to ashes
cutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection
blade; sword; forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades; sharpness; unhulled rice
linear; rectilinear; straight-line; straightforward; simple
fault; weakness; flaw; crux (of a matter); difficult point; point of contention
prey; catch; kill; spoils; trophy; loot
to rush on; to attack; to swoop down on
even ... (e.g. "even a genius")
third party; third person; outsider; disinterested person
resistance; opposition; reluctance; repulsion; resistance; drag
to boast; to brag; to recite (a song or poem to oneself); to bark; to roar
to cut off; to cut up; to tear to pieces
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
to tease; to banter; to make fun of (someone)
to tease; to make fun of; to ridicule; to mock; to play with (e.g. a toy); to fiddle with
preparedness for death; do-or-die spirit
the five fingers; leading five; top five
ten (long cylindrical things)
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)