unshapely; ill-formed; misshapen; awkward; clumsy
familiar (spirit or otherwise magical creature which aids a magician or sorcerer); familiar spirit
to get lost; to lose one's bearings; to be puzzled; to be perplexed; to be tempted; to be seduced
friendly fire; killing each other by mistake; internecine strife
characteristic; traditional; peculiar; inherent; native; eigen-
details; particulars; detailed; specific; close-up view (of a digitally displayed map); zoomed-in view
to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish
skull (esp. weatherbeaten, used as symbol of death); death's head; cranium
minus; negative (quantity); deficit; disadvantage; drawback; negative (ion, pole, growth, image, effect, etc.)
link; connection; filler; stopgap (job, budget, etc.); thickener (e.g. in cooking); thickening; hedging
occupying; having (an area) all to oneself; military occupation; possession; capture
group; party; team; organization; organisation; association
utter villain; atrocious fiend; devil
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
blackmail; extortion; threat (to extort money)
rumor; rumour; gossip; hearsay
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in
belief that human nature is fundamentally good
continuing from beginning to end; continuous run; appetizer; starter; performance of an entire play
a little over; a little more than; powerhouse; one of the biggest; upper (seismic intensity)
sensitivity; susceptibility
to be buried; to be covered; to be hidden
noisily (e.g. from many people talking); creating a commotion; rustling (leaves); feeling a chill; getting the chills
partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting
would be a waste of words; would be a waste of breath; there's no point in saying
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
baggage; luggage; burden; albatross around one's neck; excess baggage
difficult to imagine; quite unlikely to; very doubtful; would not expect
height; stature; length (esp. of clothing); all (one has); everything; magnificence (of a waka poem, etc.)
(with a) whizzing sound; sound of something whizzing by
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
god of death; death deity; Death