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stiff; starchy

1

unkempt hair; disheveled hair; tousled hair

1

black with hints of blue (as in a bruise); bluish black

2

knife blade; sword blade

5

upper tier; upper section; place of honor; place of honour; dais; raised part of floor

3

final boss

1

bad road

8

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)

2

sword skills; swordsmanship

6

formidable enemy

1

splash

1

counterattack; counteroffensive; counterblow

2

first; preliminary; primary (sources, industry, etc.); original; linear (function, equation); first-order

1

to draw (a thread); to let out (e.g. a rope); to head out as a group; to set out in large numbers; to send out one after another; to dispatch

2

offset; offsetting each other; cancelling each other out; set-off; setoff

1

comma; decimal point; radix point

1

to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess

1

odd; strange; queer; peculiar

1

tinnitus; ringing in the ears

1

slow; slow motion

1

cesspool; sink; manure sink

1

soul; spirit; departed soul; ghost

1

sports ground; sports oval

3

group with a common interest (e.g. students); club (e.g. company sports club); circle; circle (shape)

4

available; enabled; can be used; may be used

1

annulation; ring shape; loop shape

1

yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)

3

to become good-looking; to start looking appropriate (for something)

1

anti-aircraft; antiaircraft

2

to place firmly; to hit very hard

1

to tear up; to tear off; to rip up; to separate (e.g. a couple); to disrupt (a relationship)

1

dispersing; vanishing

1

long, narrow strip of paper on which Japanese poems are written (vertically); tanzaku; thin rectangle

1

amulet; charm

1

to stick (to); to cling (to); to stay (e.g. in the office)

1

charm; talisman; tally; sign; mark; fu

2

solid body; three-dimensional object; multi-storey car park

1

magic square

1

Ninja sword

12

other self; alter ego; part of oneself (in someone or something else); incarnations of Buddha

1

crunching; chewing or crushing something hard; hard and crunchy; very skinny; emaciated

1

delay; latency

1

stepping (in place); stamping (up and down); stomping; standstill; stalemate

3

to step on (a nail); to run (a nail) through one's foot; to put one's foot through (the floor)

1

iai; art of drawing one's sword, cutting down one's opponent and sheathing the sword afterwards

1

interval; distance; suitable time; appropriate opportunity; distance between opponents (kendo)

3

flame; blaze

1

scattering (in all directions)

1

to mark the end; to spell the end

1

to clear up; to clear away; to refresh (e.g. spirits); to be cleared (e.g. of a suspicion); to be dispelled; to be banished

1