fort; fortress; stronghold; fortification
every part of the world; all over the world; the four corners of the world
to cross the ocean (i.e. to go to or come from overseas)
prototype; model; pattern; archetypal
nature; the natural world; realm of nature
classification; categorization; sorting
is something that; is that which
darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy
heaven and earth; top and bottom
activity; action; occupation; business; sexual intercourse; sex
to chip; to be chipped; to be missing (from a set, team, etc.); to be absent; to be lacking (in); to be short (of)
reason; cause; circumstances
descendant; posterity; offspring
slightly difficult; somewhat bothersome; troublesome; peevish; querulous
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
argument; discussion; theory (e.g. of evolution); doctrine; essay; treatise
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
to have a talk; to tell a story
sticking to (an opinion, theory, belief, etc.); clinging to; adherence; persistence; insistence
obstinate; stubborn; mulish; die-hard; bigoted
to throw; to fling; to heave; to toss
field in which one acts unchallenged; unrivaled sphere of activity (unrivalled); one's monopoly
shallow; superficial; slight (wound); light (sleep); short (time); early
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
to be submerged; to be soaked; to be pickled; to be well seasoned; to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
(sudden) change; reversal; turn-around; coming from behind (baseball)
multicolored; multicoloured; of various colors; diverse; of all kinds; all manners of
glass sphere; glass bead; glass marble
to flip; to snap; to repel; to use (an abacus); to calculate; to strum
children's game in which the aim is to occupy the other's home base; taking a place; securing a position
porcelain (esp. soft-paste porcelain); china; chinaware; earthenware; pottery; ceramics
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
the reverse; other side; lining
aim; object; expectations; prospects; something that can be relied upon; snack served with alcoholic drink; pad
piece (in shogi, chess, etc.); (arch.) horse; (arch.) foal; bridge (of a violin, etc.)
on the board (shogi, go, etc.)
one-tenth; one percent (one-tenth of a wari); one-quarter of a ryō (obsolete unit of currency); thickness; advantageous circumstances; one-tenth of a monme of silver
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary