dispute; strife; quarrel; dissension; conflict; rivalry
Japanese sword (usu. single-edged and curved); Japanese bladed weapon
in order to do; for the purpose of doing
shooting; firing; emitting; ejection; projection; injection
flabbily; softly; limply; easily (bend); effortlessly; flexibly
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
archerfish (any fish of family Toxotidae, esp. the banded archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix)
Wednesday; shaved ice (served with flavored syrup); water (fifth of the five elements)
to wrench open; to prize open; to pick (lock)
retreat; falling back; recession; waning; backspace (key)
to spend time (on doing something)
confluence (of rivers); merge (of traffic); conflux; union (e.g. of forces); linking up; merging
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt
slaughter (of animals for meat); butchery
oxygen deficiency; oxygen shortage; lack of oxygen
gurgling down; being sucked into; caving in suddenly
body; group; party; gang; troupe; troop
extinction; annihilation; destruction
wildness (plants, animals, etc.); uncouth; rough; unpolished
(somebody else's) parents; both parents
normally being cold but at some prompt suddenly becoming lovestruck; hot-cold personality type
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos
un-; non-; negative prefix
cave; hollow; cavity; hollow
drop of water; vessel for replenishing inkstone water
a sight for sore eyes; seeing something beautiful or precious
doing something separately (from the group); going off on one's own
dripping wet; soaked; drenched
terrain; geographical features; topography
boorish; unrefined; rustic; uncouth; clumsy; brusque
bare rock; rock surface; rock face