difference; disagreement; conflict; clash; discrepancy; inconsistency
fundamental (basic) principles; fundamentals; ground rules
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)
to cause a person trouble
startup; booting up; activation; starting (e.g. engine, computer); launch
not insignificant; not to be sneezed at
to handle (men); to master (a tool); to manage; to acquire a command of (a language)
abuse; misuse; misappropriation; using to excess
hundred times; hundred degrees
beheading (as the ending to a seppuku); assistance; help
near; close; beside; third person
leaving; going home; quitting one's job; free time; leisure
fusuma; Japanese sliding screen
to step forward; to volunteer
with one's own body; by one's own action; through one's own experience; firsthand
failing college entrance exams and retaking them a year later
down to earth; reasonable; able to deal with
emphatic verbal prefix; humble verbal prefix
serious; honest; sober; grave; earnest; steady
obstinate; stubborn; inflexible
to put an end (to); to close the books (on)
one's normal condition; one's usual state; keynote (esp. shamisen); proper key
to enter (house, room, etc.); to step in
obstruction; check; hindrance; prevention; impediment; interdiction
sleeping together; sleeping with; sharing a bed
to freeze; to be frozen over; to congeal
popularity; favour; defense; defence; agreement; receiver of technique (e.g. in martial arts)
to accompany; to go hand in hand with; to be consequent upon; to be accompanied by; to bring with; to take with
apprehensions; misgivings; uneasiness; anxiety; fear
unlicensed; without a license (licence)
off the top of one's head; from thin air; from memory
to strum (an instrument); to thrum; to pluck
tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre