motor nerve; reflexes; athletic ability; motor coordination
light; easy; non-serious; minor
the defensive; passive attitude; passivity; the passive; passive voice; ukemi (the art of falling safely)
practice; practising; training; study
image change; changing one's image; makeover
extremely; terrifically; super
little less than; slightly fewer than; just under; weakness; the weak
the body; the flesh; the outer man; one's physique
act of barbarity; barbarism; brutality; savagery
curtain; bunting; act (in play)
nasty; mean; heartless; inconsiderate; selfish
selfishness; egotism; egoism; (being) self-centered; without consulting; (doing) as one pleases
growth; breeding; growing up (in, as); upbringing
hating to lose; unyielding; unbending; competitive; sore loser; determined
to consider as; to regard (as equivalent); to deem (as); to equate
leaving as is; leaving alone; leaving to chance; neglecting; abandoning
to keep company; to look after; to entertain; to play (a game) with
spiced sake (served at New Year's)
being at sea; losing one's bearings; (arch.) disorientation upon waking at night; (arch.) forgetting which house or room to enter
to lay bare; to expose; to reveal
to have authority over; to exercise one's authority (over); to glare; to scowl at; to glower at
orders; instructions; directive; command
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
to restrict; to limit; to be restricted to; to be limited to; to be best (for); to be the best plan
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
risky; dangerous; suggestive; bordering on the obscene; (arch.) extreme; (arch.) harsh
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge
reasonably; fairly; hurriedly; in a rush; approximately; about
request; commission; entrusting (with a matter); dependence; reliance
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
rate; ratio; comparatively; contrary to expectations
the front; honesty; uprightness; decency; normality
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
inexperienced; unfamiliar (with); unversed; lacking experience
to hit the mark; to hit the nail on the head