precise; accurate; appropriate; exactly the right
counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks); to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)
training; drill; practice; practising; discipline
to precede; to forestall; to anticipate
foreseeing; anticipating; lookahead; prefetching; reading ahead
conduct; behavior; behaviour
to bend; to curve; to bend (the truth); to falsify; to corrupt; to sully
surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency
thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)
exhaustion; fatigue; impoverishment; (financial) exhaustion; ruin
class (e.g. school); grade; rank; kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
to fail to read correctly
to pile up; to stack up; to accumulate
to get tired; to tire; to become worn out (of a well-used object); (arch.) to starve
to wipe; to mop up; to get rid of (an impression, feeling, blemish, etc.); to dispel (e.g. shame); to erase
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
to be blessed with; to be rich in; to abound in
to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
deep-rooted delusion; firm conviction (based on incorrect beliefs)
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
-less; lacking; non-existing
(arch.) the art of war; (arch.) martial arts; military force; the sword; valor; bravery
to repel; to drive away; to repulse; to reject
mediocrity; ordinary ability
to prepare oneself (for the worst); to resolve oneself
to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase
left and right; right and left; (asserting) control; influence; one's attendants; people accompanying one
(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place
to sink (e.g. a ship); to submerge; to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair); to floor (an opponent)
reversal; return; return gift; return favour (favor); barb (on a fishing hook); mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
from now; from the present moment; from this time forward; henceforth
ferocious; fierce; truculent; savage