teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)
dawn; daybreak; event (e.g. "in the event of ..."); occasion; occurrence
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
show; display; pretensions; pose (in kabuki); posture
interest; appeal; attraction; fun
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
to attack a routed enemy; to sink the boot into; to pour salt on a wound
to press for an answer; to shower questions on someone
people; citizens; subjects; folk
to turn over (face down); to lay face down; to point downwards (eyes, head, etc.); to cast down (eyes); to lie (one's body) face down; to lie flat (on the ground)
to withdraw; to leave; to retire; to back down; to give up
imagination; supposition; guess
no matter how you put it; whatever the circumstances may be; say what you like; no matter how you look at it
to hurt one's feelings; to rub someone the wrong way
to walk away; to saunter off
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
to represent; to signify; to reveal; to show; to express; to make widely known
in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
survival; survivor; relic
to compile; to bring together; to weave; to put together; to bring to a conclusion; to wrap up
western part; the west (of a region); the West (United States)
single; solo; solitary; just one; only one
postwar period; period after Second World War
civil war; insurrection; rebellion; domestic conflict
ability; capability; skill
cowardly; timid; easily frightened
martial arts; military arts; wushu; modern sport derived from traditional Chinese martial arts
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
to get dead drunk; to get blind drunk
to make eyes at; to leer; to ogle; to ingratiate oneself; to toady; to flatter
ambition; aspiration; sinister designs; treachery
component; factor; item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
test; trial; probation; ordeal; tribulation
price; cost; value; worth; value
motionlessly (e.g. stand, wait); (be) still; fixedly (e.g. gaze, stare); intently (e.g. listen, think); patiently (endure); stoically