giant; great man; Tokyo Giants (baseball team)
grasping; gripping; handful; fistful; handle; grip; rice ball
fence; paling; railing; (arch.) fortress
speck; dot; point; only a little; particle; only one
extinction; extinguishment; disappearance; annihilation
grasping; seizing; holding; commanding; having control over
secret techniques (of an art or skill); inner mysteries; essence; quintessence; heart
query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry
measure; step; countermeasure; counterplan; countermove; strategy
to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)
to smash violently; to crush
isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
piece; fragment; one (object)
wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected
to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
oh, OK; oh, I see; oh, yeah?; hmm
hack; untrained; incompetent; useless; quack (doctor)
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; (not) any
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
old enemy; longtime enemy; arch-enemy; traditional rival; longstanding foe
to get used to; to grow accustomed to; to become skilled in; to become experienced at; to become tame; to become domesticated
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter
falsely similar; counterfeit
look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute
dubious; puzzled; suspicious
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd
plan; meter; measuring device; (in) total; total (of)
given that ... it is only natural that ...; ... being the case, it is unavoidable that ...; (precisely) because ...; contrary to expectations ...
to be reminded of; to call to mind
unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom
to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher
superior; first-class; excellent; (that's) just fine!; bring it on!
who on earth; just exactly who; who the heck