(phonograph) record; record (esp. in sports); record (data structure)
funny story; funny anecdote
only natural; no wonder; as expected; of course; as it should be
call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
creation; generation; formation; derivation
unprepared; careless; imprudent; indiscreet
to pile up; to accumulate
favorite; favourite; habitually used
close; intimate; on good terms
absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)
overcrowding; congestion; overpopulation; crammed (schedule); congested; busy
very intensive training; very hard training
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
hand-to-hand combat; fighting at close quarters; close combat
to state; to express; to say; to tell; to mention
to sense; to suspect; to get an inkling (of something); to get wind of; to smell (e.g. danger); to become aware of (e.g. a plot)
immediately; as soon as possible; as quickly as possible
to parry; to sidestep; to dodge
lessening; diminishing; reducing
what's what; heads or tails
fighting game (esp. one-on-one)
blow to a vital point of a person's body; striking techniques (judo)
throw; throwing; resigning (a game of shogi, go, etc.); giving up; selling at a loss; sell-off
legitimate; orthodox; traditional
to wear away; to rub down; to abrade
original method; original procedure; genuine way (of doing something)
to cut (grass, hair, etc.); to mow; to clip; to trim; to prune; to shear
deep-seated; deep-rooted; ingrained
exceedingly; extremely; decisively
seriously; no kidding; joking aside; in all seriousness
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
to bend backwards; to bend oneself back; to be taken aback
whoosh (of something suddenly spreading, billowing, swelling, or gushing outward); fwoosh; (bursting) into tears; suddenly (crying)
to intervene; to stop (something)