maintenance; preservation; improvement
(animal) feed; fodder; pet food; bait; lure; enticement
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
monitoring; watching; observation; surveillance; guarding; supervision
fierce animal; beast of prey; big game
cry (of an animal); call; chirp; song; caw; roar
to (make something) quiver; to shake; to tremble; to vibrate
slow; sluggish; dull; lax (regulation, handling, etc.); slack; sloppy
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
flexible; lithe; soft; calisthenics
very fast; in a twinkle; before one's eyes
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
doubt; misgivings; distrust; suspicion
disposal; scrapping; replacement; putting on the shelf; shelving
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
to bend by twisting; to twist; to contort; to distort (e.g. the truth); to twist (e.g. someone's words)
abhorrent; abominable; detestable; ominous; inauspicious; unlucky
gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180 ml; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 square meters; one-tenth of the distance from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum
tail (of an animal); cauda; tail (of a kite, etc.); tail end; tail (of a comet); slope at the foot of a mountain
distorted; crooked; oval; elliptical shape; round, wooden container for cooked rice; oval coin
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
tree; shrub; wood; timber; wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
to grow thickly; to be overgrown; to thrive; to grow in abundance
mountain road; mountain trail
product; produce; result; fruit
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
to become attached (to); to take (to); to become affectionate (with); to be tamed; to get close (e.g. to someone emotionally); to become intimate (with)
to name; to call; to christen; to term
my; one's own; I ...; one ...
the same kind; accomplice; partner
accomplice; conspirator; cohort
extraordinarily; astonishingly; extraordinary; outrageous; unconditioned dharma
to permeate (of a stain, smell, etc.); to become ingrained; to become embedded; to become a deeply ingrained habit; to become second nature
extraction; abstraction; selection (from a group); sampling