assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop
to run to; to come running; to rush (someplace); to hasten
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
kid; young goat; goatling
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling
scheme; tactic; stratagem; trick
ferocious; brutal; atrocious; savage; barbarous
cannibalism; biting (someone); man-eating (e.g. tiger); cannibalistic
difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different
werewolf; Werewolf (social deduction game); Mafia
toilet; restroom; bathroom; lavatory
knitting wool; woolen yarn; woollen yarn
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
to undo; to untie; to unfasten; to unlace; to unravel; to loosen
response (felt in the hands); resistance; reaction; response; effect
to escape; to make one's getaway; to manage to get away
and so on; and so forth; et cetera; comment; criticism
three flat objects (sheets of paper, pieces of cloth, etc.); cutting a fish into two boneless fillets and a piece with the skeleton
type of household amulet or talisman, issued by a Shinto shrine, hung in the house for protection
hag; witch; bitch; penurious or spiteful old woman; termagant; virago
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
tiger (Panthera tigris); drunkard; drunk; sot
old woman; joker (card); hag; bitch
to take the form of (esp. in ref. to a spirit, fox, raccoon dog, etc.); to assume the shape of; to disguise oneself as; to change radically; to metamorphose; to improve unexpectedly and dramatically (esp. of an actor, artist, rikishi, etc.)
care-taking; house-sitting; house-watching; caretaker; house-sitter
older sister; elder sister
extermination (e.g. of pests, demons, bandits); elimination; making someone renounce worldly desires in order to concentrate on Buddha's teachings; curing illness
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
pig (Sus scrofa domesticus); pork; fatso; fatty
theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan
notice; attention; observation
classification; categorization; sorting
a little; some; somewhat; amount; quantity; number
exclusion; removal; rejection; elimination; abatement; lifting (sanctions, etc.)
thoughtful; deep-thinking
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
prior; beforehand; in advance; before the fact; ex ante
not to mention ...; needless to say ...; not to speak of ...; (arch.) negligent; (arch.) neglectful; (arch.) careless
to squeeze; to wring out; to narrow down; to refine
background knowledge; prerequisite knowledge