to leap back; to jump back
to guess; to conjecture; to surmise
senior high school student
how; in what way; how (much); to what extent; however (much); no matter how
be (that) as it may; having said that
ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
reserve; spare; preparation; preliminaries
movement (of the body); action; bearing; carriage; operation (of a machine, software, etc.); running
error; mistake; slip; bug
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
famous sword; excellent sword
practitioner; specialist; man (esp. one who is well-respected); samurai
shortish; rather short; somewhat short
underhand grip (e.g. in gymnastics, etc.); cross-handed grip (e.g. in golf, etc.); using one's hands backwards from their conventional positioning; reverse grip (e.g. of a sword); turning the tables (on an opponent); reverse arm-lock (in judo); joint lock
small build; small stature; petite; small pattern
ninjutsu; combat and stealth techniques used by ninja for espionage, sabotage, assassination, etc.
ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan
gale; strong wind; swift wind; fresh breeze (Beaufort scale)
to attack; to go for; to come at; to pounce on; to jump on; to swoop down on
to destroy; to demolish; to disturb; to put into disorder; to relax (one's pose); to make oneself at ease; to break (a bill)
unpreparedness; falsehood; Chinese "Emptiness" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
to deceive; to delude; to trick; to be as ... as ... (e.g. "as bright as day", "as beautiful as a rose")
to be disordered; to be disarranged; to be discomposed; to be upset; to lapse into chaos (due to war, etc.)
be considered; be deemed; be thought to be
acrobatics; acrobatic performance; stunt
stillness; rest; being stationary; standing still; coming to a standstill
trunk (of the body); soma
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game
to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected
to blink (one's eyes) repeatedly
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
to be dazzled by; to be dizzied by; to be lost in (greed, lust, etc.); (arch.) to become dark
sand, ash, etc., thrown in the eyes to blind someone; throwing something at someone's eyes to blind them; eye poke (in combat sports); eye-gouging
covering for the back of the hand and wrist
clothing; costume; outfit; garment; dress