image (on a screen); picture (e.g. on a TV); video; film; reflection; image (in one's mind)
dreary; bleak; monotonous; tasteless; unrefined
liquid; liquid hair product
to wait and see; to see how the land lies
invasion; raid; attack; visitation (of a calamity)
left utterly helpless; have no one to turn to; unapproachable
coming flying in (migratory birds, airborne sand, pollen, etc.); coming by airplane
foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
to compete ruthlessly; (lit.) to sharpen swords
mutually; with each other; reciprocally; together
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
if one is unlucky; if one is careless
gap; break; pause; interval; cut; incision
(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place
answer respectively agreement or disagreement
long sword (esp. the tachi, worn on the hip edge down by samurai); large sword; straight single-edged Japanese sword (from the mid-Heian period or earlier)
victory or defeat; issue (of battle); outcome
to corner; to drive to the wall; to run down; to track down; to chase after
emptiness; hollowness; vacancy; inanity; pointlessness; meaninglessness
to commit a crime; to commit a sin
to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out
truth or falsehood; genuineness; authenticity; veracity
to conceal; to keep secret; to cover up
clearness; clarity; skillfulness (skilfulness)
to peak (at a given time or given group); to approach the peak; to come to a peak
to accomplish something; to leave a mark; to make an impression; to build a track record
sting (of a bee, etc.); stinger; needle covered with poison
desperation; despair; self-abandonment
egoism; egotism; selfishness
to overlook; to fail to notice; to miss (seeing)
to curse someone to death; to put a deadly curse on someone
crazy deed; unbelievable deed; the height of madness; act of sheer madness
to lay bare; to expose; to reveal
meddling; interfering; choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one
to have a cramp; to twitch; to stiffen (of a face, expression); to freeze; to shrink (of skin, due to a scar); to tauten
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
to seize; to capture; to arrest; to hold down; to subdue