hesitation; indecision; vacillation
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
darkness; the dark; bewilderment; despair; hidden place; secrecy
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
to make a mess of; to sacrifice; to waste
favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right
success in life; getting ahead; successful career; promotion; climbing the corporate ladder; eminence
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
degree; amount; grade; standard; of the order of (following a number); about
to get blurry vision; to get bleary eyes; to get dim eyesight
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
tumor; tumour; swelling; boil; abscess
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
to be affected; to be influenced; to be concerned with; to have to do with; to stick to (opinions)
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome
to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake
each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of
to lose one's temper; to throw a tantrum
to comfort; to console; to amuse
opposition; resistance; antagonism; reverse; opposite; inverse
to be evident; to be obvious; to understand completely
defeating an argument; winning an argument; refutation; confutation
fighting with real swords; game played in real earnest
competition; contest; rivalry; competition (between organisms or species)
easy; simple; simple (way of thinking, etc.); simple-minded; soft; lax
to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance
dissatisfaction; discontent; displeasure; complaint; unhappiness
back; reverse; rear side; height; stature; ridge (of a mountain)
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
one's style of playing shogi or go