chic; smart; understanding; considerate; familiar with worldly pleasures (esp. sexual relations, geisha districts and red-light districts)
physical strength; brute strength; arm strength
substantial matter; significant item
motherland; fatherland; native country
first move (in go, shogi, etc.); moving first; person with the first move; forestalling; (seizing the) initiative
to decapitate; to take (someone's) head off; to depose; to topple
to shorten; to reduce; to crumple (fabric); to wrinkle; to make (one's body) smaller; to draw in (one's legs)
wooden joints; paired karate kata; beltwork
attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
looking away; looking aside
far away; far off; nowhere near; far cry
intracerebral; inside the brain; (occurring) in the mind; mental (e.g. image); imaginary
self control; self restraint
underhanded; unfair; makeshift; stopgap
living thing; organism; creature; biology
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
judgment; judgement; discernment
scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market
stiffening; rigidity; rigor; stiffness; ossification; petrification
finishing blow; coup de grâce
neck; head; dismissal; discharge
cutting; severance; section; amputation; disconnection
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious
sharpness; cutting ability; quickness (of wit); incisiveness; peppiness (of a ball)
in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
to break; to snap; to be injured; to wear out; to be worn out; to break; to burst
difficult; tough; formidable; redoubtable; stubborn
to rise; to swell; to be promoted
to burn; to scorch; to singe; to char
to rise up (e.g. pillar of smoke); to go up
eternity; perpetuity; permanence; immortality
to pour (into); to sprinkle on (from above); to water (e.g. plants); to shed (tears); to concentrate one's energy (strength, attention, etc.) on; to devote to; to flow into (e.g. of a river)
to change into; to convert to; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)
to stick into (of something with a sharp point); to prick; to pierce; to resonate emotionally; to move