treatment (medical, cosmetic, massage, etc.); carrying out (therapy, hypnosis, etc.); practicing; surgical operation; procedure
to find difficult to guess; to struggle to work out; to be unable to figure out
scratch; graze; scrape; abrasion
stern expression; severe expression; grim expression
unvoiced opinion; (opinion of the) silent majority; views which are not expressed
sting (of a bee, etc.); stinger; needle covered with poison
great variety of flowering plants; light greenish-blue; various
lethality; killing effectiveness
model; prototype; archetype; (sewing) pattern
kitchen knife; (arch.) cooking; (arch.) food
tofu; bean curd; beancurd
abuse; misuse; perversion
shell (of a crab, tortoise, etc.); carapace; (person's) back; years of experience
to be unable to endure; to be unable to stand (something); to lose patience
whatever will be, will be; things happen the way they happen; let nature take its course
show; display; pretensions; pose; posture
everything; for (to) everything; (in) anything
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
to take flight; to disappear
trade; business; trading; turnover; sales; takings
arguing back and forth; bandying words; verbal tug-of-war
to pray; to say a prayer; to offer up a prayer
rubble; debris; wreckage; trash; rubbish
to split; to be split; to become sunken (e.g. of cheeks); to become hollowed; to weaken (e.g. of motivation, interest, etc.); to decrease
to follow (a rule, precedent, etc.); to conform to (the law, standards, etc.); to be proportionate to; to correspond to; to be equivalent to
section; cross section; profile
with a start; with a jump
autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator
evading blame by pinning it on a subordinate and abandoning them; (lit.) a skink lizard's shedding of its tail
foreign enemy; outside invader
to move around; to move about; to get around
substance; true form; main part; main unit; object of worship (at a shrine, temple, etc.); noumenon
reflection; reverberation; reflex; reflexes
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
parting gift; remembrance; aftereffect
to shed tears; to (begin to) cry
to be in difficulties; to be in trouble; to be in a difficult situation
serious wound; serious injury