immediate; prompt; quick; rapid; urgent; pressing
war potential; military strength; fighting power; ability (to compete); capabilities; valuable asset
to put in order; to arrange; to get ready; to prepare; to work out (e.g. business deal); to arrange (e.g. marriage)
necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
god; deity; incredible; fantastic; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder
last night; yesterday evening
originally; by nature; from the start
to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide
test; trial; probation; ordeal; tribulation
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
profound; deep; deep (of a cave, etc.); innermost; interior
bare rock; rock surface; rock face
to dig through; to drill into; to excavate
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
conference room; council room
labyrinth; maze; mystery; dungeon
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
every person; each one; everybody
to collect; to assemble; to gather
to quarry; to cut (timber); to begin to talk; to break the ice; to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.); to select and extract (from a media file)
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
to respond; to answer; to meet (e.g. demands, expectations); to affect; to take a toll; to strike home
flabbily; softly; limply; easily (bend); effortlessly; flexibly
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
icon; simple ink drawing (of a buddha, mandala, etc.)
to float; to be suspended; to rise to the surface; to appear; to come to mind; to have inspiration
left side; left-hand side
to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)
base (of a plant, tree, pillar, etc.); (part near the) root; roots (of one's hair); root (e.g. of a problem); source
to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
in the meanwhile; during the time
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
to lie down; to stretch out; to lie ahead (of danger, difficulty, etc.); to lie in wait
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
to throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent (in Japanese mythology)
to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest