core; core; hardcore; all-out
personal expenses; pocket money; spending money; incidental expenses; allowance
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
tending to find things bothersome; person who tends to find things bothersome
strategist; tactician; schemer
to slash back; to strike back; to counterattack; to cut the wheel; to perform a twisting backward knee trip
getting back together; being reconciled; returning to normal
on the contrary; rather; all the more; instead
to throw away as useless; to scrap; to make null and void; to renege; to annul
to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)
generous; soft-hearted; having a good personality
spirituality; spiritual nature
to look stupid; to have a critical lack
out of the question; outrageous; impossible; irrelevant; not pertinent
to lose focus; to let one's mind wander; to relax one's attention
amiability; friendliness; fondness (of someone); affection; compliments; civilities
to use completely; to use up; to exhaust; to exhaust somebody's civility; to give up (on someone)
blunder; bungle; clumsiness
not having enough workers; being understaffed; being undermanned; having nothing one can do about something; having no options
carelessly; inattentively
to push aside; to brush aside
in a whisper; in a low voice; in undertones
(political) power; authority; influence
determining a speaker's true or hidden meaning; determining a speaker's intentions from his manner of speech; (arch.) divining good or bad luck from listening to someone
blow; shock; strike; batting
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
point (of a sword, etc.); pointed verbal attack
to slide into; to slip into
speaker; narrator; speaker (of a language)
addressing (someone) without using a suffix such as "-san" or "-chan" (considered impolite)
surname; family name; last name
dated; date; fixed; external
daydream; fantasy; fancy; vision
to get accustomed to using
preconception; preconceived notion; prejudice
Zen dialogue; Zen questions and answers
to stay long; to hang around; to hang out; to be immersed (in water) for a long time; to soak
with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow); with a dip; with a bob; with a flutter