praying mantis (esp. the narrow-winged mantis, Tenodera angustipennis)
describing; comparing; form; figure; personal appearance; one's face and figure
good performance; good work; great success
temporal region; regio temporalis (capitis)
to dig out; to hollow out; to cut into
(opening of) a wound; (mouth of a) wound; cut
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking
individual; one by one; separate; each
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
to tighten; to press hard
to wring the neck; to strangle
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
thorny shrub; wild rose; briar; thorn; cusp
materials; data; document
ceremony; rite; ritual; service
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
root; origin; source; Ōmoto (religion)
underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret
(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate
to chip; to nick; to break; to lack
hard struggle; strenuous effort
agglutination; adhesion; deadlock; stalemate; standstill
on one hand; on the other hand
to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way); to put off; to delay; to postpone
rapid succession (e.g. questions)
poor-quality; shoddy; unskillful; inexpert; unlucky
as if; as it were; as though; right then; just then; at that moment
indiscrete; imprudent; unscrupulous
last stand; last bastion; last stronghold; last frontier
to be deeply impressed; to take to heart; to engrave on one's heart; to bear in mind; (lit.) to engrave in one's liver
to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud
hope; promise; expectation; anticipation; side of a structural member
to lure someone; to entice someone
to divide in two; to divide in half; to apportion; to divide among; to portion out