difficult to understand; difficult to grasp; confusing; puzzling
fireball; ball of fire; will-o'-the-wisp; jack-o'-lantern
stone wall; dry wall; rocky cliff; stone precipice
immortality; eternal life; undeath; undead
one by one; in detail; minutely
drawing; diagram; plans; blueprint
promptly; quickly; without delay; before others; first
large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant
crossbow (incl. large models operated by a number of people); netted apparatus atop a wall containing large stones, which were dropped onto attackers by cutting the net; slingshot; catapult
deployment; disposition; posting; stationing
stubborn; dogged; persistent; tough; sturdy; hardy
weathering; fading (of memories); efflorescence
one o'clock; once; at one time; for a time; for a while; a time
re-examination; review; reconsideration; reappraisal
to try and judge a person's feelings (from their expression)
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
entry into a castle (esp. by a conquering force)
concealment; hiding; ambush; incubation; latency; dormancy
to knock down; to shoot down; to lop off
humus; leaf mold; leaf mould; mulch
focusing on only one thing; obsessively; intensely; selfish; self-serving
to dig up; to turn up; to tear up; to rake up (e.g. old scandal); to dig over
to narrow; to reduce; to contract
reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); the underlying principles of the cosmos (in neo-Confucianism)
to explain; to preach; to advocate; to persuade; to prevail upon; to reason with
to burrow through; to dig through
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
this and that; one thing or another
to set (sun); to become dark
both armies; both teams; both sides
curtain; act (in a play); falling of the curtain; end (of a scene); end; close; case
successful execution; accomplishment; completion; fulfillment; carrying through
(an) unknown; unknown number; variable; unknown quantity; not yet known
attack on both sides; pincer movement; double envelopment
fair attack; fair tactics; straightforward approach; standard procedure; established method
with no regard to appearances; without caring about how one looks
(a) weakness; shortcoming; failing; sore point
it is I who should say so
(one's) sleeping hours; hours of sleep
allotment; assignment; allocation; allocation
direct unforked road; straight path