to herd; to drive; to corner; to force someone into doing; to go hard; to push yourself
crafty; vicious; unscrupulous; sharp
essential; substantial; substantive; intrinsic
lax; lenient; lukewarm; slow; sluggish
reaching; attaining; arrival
perseverance; determination; tenacity; energy
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
deep pool; deep water; abyss; depths (e.g. of despair); grip (e.g. of death)
to complete decisively; to do to completion
to bear; to stand; to restrain; to control; to forgive; to put up with
heart; guts; nerve; heart (of something); central part
scratch; graze; scrape; minor damage
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
irregular; bad bounce (in tennis); bad hop (in baseball)
wood (for building); lumber; timber
firing; shooting; fire; gunshot; marksmanship
standard practice; playing by the book; established tactic; joseki (jōseki); standard sequence of moves (esp. in a corner)
blade; sword; forged blade; wavy pattern on forged blades; sharpness; unhulled rice
leaf (of a tree); tree leaves; foliage
to rain incessantly; to downpour
on the occasion of; at the time of
paralysis; palsy; numbness; loss of sensation; standstill; state of paralysis
action; operation; process; agency; effect; function
favorite (to win); favourite; one's heart's desire; first choice; chocolate given to a man on Valentine's day out of genuine sentiment
two kinds; second-class (e.g. mail)
shout of joy; cry of pleasure; jubilant comments
via; through; by doing; by means of; using
modus operandi; criminal technique; trick
to seal (e.g. a letter); to prevent (e.g. movement); to forbid; to block (e.g. speech)
if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)
versus; against; to (e.g. score of 4 to 2, ratio of 3 to 1, vote of 320 to 180); toward ...; to ...; equal footing
delicate technique (in sumo, judo, etc.); little trick; subtle maneuver
temporary; transitory; short-lived
to throw up (e.g. mud); to splash (up); to flip up; to tip up; to raise sharply (e.g. prices); to hike
six (long cylindrical things)
to fall into (e.g. a hole); to fall into (chaos, depression, dilemma, illness, etc.); to fall into (a trap, etc.); to fall; to surrender
bat (Chiroptera spp.); umbrella; opportunist; turncoat
to make efforts; to take pains; to break a bone
foundation; base; basis; from the beginning; from the outset; by nature
to fray one's nerves; to wear out one's nerves; to frazzle one's nerves; to be a nervous wreck