(at a rate of) once a month; 10 percent monthly interest
distribution (of information, news, etc.); broadcast; delivery; transmission; streaming (over the Internet)
material (for a story, article, etc.); information; joke; jest; proof; evidence; (magician's) trick
close (e.g. friend); familiar; familiar (e.g. story); well-known (to one); close (relatives); closely related
stealing a march on; getting a head start; secretly acting before others; solo raid on an enemy's camp (for glory)
breaking up (a meeting, gathering, etc.); dispersal (e.g. of a crowd); dissolution (of a company, organization, etc.); winding-up; dissolution (of the Diet, Parliament, etc.)
small; narrow; familiar prefix; slightly; a bit
just like; exactly like; as if; (do) just like ...; (be) virtually like ...; as if it were ...
(police) detective; criminal matter
no good; not allowed; not acceptable; outtake; blooper; retake
Vermilion Bird (god said to rule over the southern heavens); seven mansions (Chinese constellations) of the southern heavens
periodic; regular; routine
blood; blood; ancestry; (the) blood; feelings
to breathe in; to inhale; to suck; to sip; to absorb; to soak up
exclusive; attached to; specialist
donor (blood, organ, etc.)
secret; private; surreptitious
tension; strain; tensions (between countries, groups, etc.); tonus; muscle tone
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
to say; to tell; to state; to do
to look after; to take care of; to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment)
uh-huh; mm-hmm; with a moan; with a groan
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
for generations; from generation to generation; generation after generation; through the ages
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
barbershop; barber shop; barber
to have a cramp; to twitch; to stiffen (of a face, expression); to freeze; to shrink (of skin, due to a scar); to tauten
information leak; data breach
to make a slip of the tongue; to say something inadvertently; to blurt out without thinking
even if; even though; although one might say; although called
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game
cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on
will-o'-the-wisp; ignis fatuus
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
dead person; (the) deceased; (the) dead; casualties