evasion; avoidance; recusal (of a judge)
(very) quick; rapid; swift; speedy; prompt; expeditious
shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain
(made of) stone; stone-built
length and width; length and breadth; every direction; all directions; as one wishes; as one pleases
various; diverse; different; divergent; divided; conflicting
to adjoin each other; to sit side by side
giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
edged tool; cutting instrument; knife
series of battles; successive battles
conspicuously; noticeably; remarkably; strikingly; outstandingly; especially
rate; ratio; one tenth; ten percent; (comparative) profit; gain; assignment
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
gradually; little by little; step by step
being filled with; being full of; permeation
hair (on the head); (a) hair
to go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return
to hide; to keep to oneself
to suck up; to pump up; to siphon off (profits, etc.); to exploit; to take up others' opinions, hopes, etc.
torrent; rapid stream; violently rushing stream
revolution; rotation; turning; turning (an aircraft or ship)
to rampage; to run wild; to run amok; to rage (of a storm, waves, etc.); to be wild (of the wind); to be rough
mincing; chopping finely; short and repeated (movements; e.g. trembling, quick steps); gradual; bit by bit
flaring up; burning hotly; flying into a rage; losing one's cool; opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes, mouth); (arch.) acting resolutely
very difficult to ...; nearly impossible to ...
to rise; to swell; to intensify; to increase; to grow stronger; to get higher
dazzling; glaring; dazzlingly beautiful
at full speed; (at) full tilt; headlong; impetuously; precipitately
plentiful; lot of; much; pile of
aim (of a gun, bow, etc.); aim; object; objective
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to mislead; to misguide; to do accidentally; to do by mistake
bringing certain death; deadly; knockout (blow)
to fly around; to scatter
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
with a crack; with a cracking sound; with one's veins about to burst (from pent-up anger)
to crack; to get cracked; to develop a crack; to develop a fissure