hard (e.g. penis); strong (e.g. beat of music); throbbing (e.g. headache); blaring (e.g. rock music)
duty; obligation; responsibility
to attract; to be used to
hand net; dip net; scoop net
partly open; in half bloom
to badger; to pester; to beg
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
highest grade; superlative degree
which is which; one or the other
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
absentmindedly; dazedly; vaguely
to blend; to mix thoroughly and evenly; to make fit in; to domesticate
suicide bombing (e.g. crashing one's plane into a target); self-destruction; blowing oneself up
to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable
to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to fail to ...; to miss one's opportunity to ...
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
direct proportion; direct ratio
downy hair; down; vellus hair; lanugo
to row; to scull; to pedal (e.g. bicycle); to swing (on a swing); to operate a hand pump; to push through (deep snow, the jungle, etc.)
soft hair; villus (intestinal)
instead of; replacing; on behalf of
subjectivity; subject (philosophical); ego; one's personal opinion; one's own idea
ten to one; nine cases out of ten
treachery; betrayal; perfidy
a seal affixed to a document
to melt (steel, etc.); to liquefy; to soften; to melt (one's heart); to disarm
passions; sexual desire; lust
nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyō; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world
symbol; code; sign; notation
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer