attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
attacking a fleeing enemy; additional attack on a weakened enemy; additional blow to an already unfortunate situation
sweetly (smiling); broadly (grinning)
complexion; one's colour; one's color; countenance; expression; one's face
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
to pass; to pass on; to give (something) a miss; to cut it out; to knock off (for the day); to let the matter drop
in; on; at (place); as for; regarding
excelling; surpassing; outdoing
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
reason; logic; sense; truth; right
declaration; proclamation; announcement
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
to be ruined; to go under; to perish; to be destroyed
opposite; opposition; versus; vs.; to (e.g. "winning a game five to three"); equal footing
mind; spirit; attitude; mentality; spirit (of a matter); essence
war; battle; match; game; competition
I; me; myself; (arch.) we; (arch.) us; (arch.) ourselves
being in charge (of an area of responsibility); being responsible (for a work role, etc.)
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
to clear away; to remove; to demolish
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)
to blow off (strongly); to blow away; to drive away (e.g. one's worries); to dispel; to do at great speed (e.g. drive a car); to carry out (a task) very quickly
shouts used when viewing fireworks (from names of Edo-period fireworks vendors)
dying; death; dead; useless; damned
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
(one's) family; dependents; household; follower; retainer; underling
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
under control (e.g. of territory)
substance; real form; main part; main unit; this machine; this appliance; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.)
influence; effect; to influence; to affect; to have an influence on
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
to memorize; to memorise; to learn; to pick up; to feel; to think
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
radio wave; reception; signal; saying strange things
receiving (a message, letter, email, etc.); reception (radio, TV, etc.)
establishing; proving; ascertaining; identifying; confirming