willingness (e.g. to do something); eagerness; motivation; inspiration; determination; high aspirations
conviction; belief; confidence
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
to shrug (shoulders); to duck (head); to draw back (body)
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
there; that situation; that occasion; the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there
to sit down hard; to sink down to the floor
appearance; arrival; make one's appearance
something's wrong (with someone); not right (in the head); not oneself; crazy; nuts
to stoop; to lean over; to bend forward; to bend down; to crouch; to squat
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
change; alteration; difference; distinction; something wrong; abnormality
panic; scare; alarm; panic; financial panic
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
(in the) confusion (of the moment)
tactics; strategy; military operation; naval operation
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
stripe; bar; streak; (weaved) stripe pattern (of 2 or more different colors)
rabbit; hare; coney; cony; lagomorph (esp. leporids)
great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough
clumsy (work); awkward; poorly made; ugly (of a person); unattractive; plain
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
to beat to death; to kill
it seems so; that's what it looks like
to undertake; to take on (task); to assure; to guarantee; to vouch (for)
primness; prim person; clear soup; water for rinsing sake cups (at a banquet, etc.)
tool; implement; means; furniture
to hew; to chop up; to mangle; to mince
tough; strong; stiff; tenacious
(jumping) nimbly; light-footed; boing; used at sentence end to affect cuteness
to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
equal (in ability); even; evenly matched; well-matched; on par (with)
with energy; vigorously; cheerfully; assertively; lustily
to speak sharply (e.g. during a heated discussion or argument)
one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
adaptation; accommodation; conforming; acclimatization; acclimatisation