tender; kind; gentle; graceful; affectionate; amiable
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
weird; ominous; eerie; uncanny; ghastly
to take someone along; to be accompanied (by)
to slip through; to make one's way through quickly
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
trauma (usu. psychological)
to face on; to look out on to
supply; supplying; replenishment
borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)
to go through; to pass through; to struggle through; to get through (difficulties, danger, etc.); to escape (through the cordon)
to raise objections; to complain; (to have the right) to say anything
being done for; giving up; being in a hopeless situation; not knowing what to do; being brought to one's knees; (lit.) throwing up (one's) hands
bowl; vessel; container; ability; capacity; calibre
courier; smuggler; carrier (e.g. of illegal drugs); trafficker
shadow figure; silhouette
hmmm; uh-huh; murmur indicating approval, comprehension, etc.
founder of a religious sect
Japanese-language dictionary; dictionary of a national language
embarrassing; embarrassed; ashamed; disgraceful; shameful
(the extent of) one's vocabulary
not counted (in the score); not tallied
to pull oneself together; to collect oneself (after a failure); to regain control (of oneself)
secret; clandestine; covert; spy (for a daimyo, shogun, etc.); secret agent
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
ninjutsu; combat and stealth techniques used by ninja for espionage, sabotage, assassination, etc.
other self; alter ego; part of oneself (in someone or something else); incarnations of Buddha
Saturday; earth; dirt; land; lands; earth (third of the five elements)
to conceal oneself; to hide; to endure; to bear; to stand
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
one move (in go, shogi, etc.); only way; only means; doing alone; doing single-handed
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
rule; regulation; settlement; conclusion; habit; custom
odorless; odourless; unscented
concealment; suppression; hiding
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
fidelity; honour; honor; chastity (of a woman); faithfulness (e.g. to one's husband)