regulation; adjustment; control
to beg; to ask; to request; to pray; to wish
to loosen; to slacken; to relax (attention, efforts, etc.); to let down (one's guard); to relax (a rule); to ease (e.g. restrictions)
support; participation; assistance; complicity; conspiracy
viewing through a window; passing through a window; going through a window; doing through a window
to break through; to penetrate; to pierce
cruelty; coldheartedness; relentless; ruthless
to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance
to suspend (from); to hang (down); to dangle
district; area; zone; quarter; section; region
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
(verbal) abuse; denunciation; disparagement; vilification; scathing criticism
to leave words (behind one, e.g. after death); to say (for posterity); to utter last words; to leave some things unsaid
serious; severe; grave; acute
condition; state (of health); appearance
seitai; manipulative therapy based on Chinese and Japanese traditions, and encompassing osteopathy, massage and chiropractic
to see (a doctor, etc.); to consult (someone)
to lay down; to wear (a sword, etc.) at one's side
chest (of a person's body); chest of drawers
makimono; handscroll; roll of cloth (for making a kimono); scarf; stole; makizushi
not understanding; not knowing
ignition; combustion; firing a blank cartridge; discharge of a gun without bullets; firing (of an event); triggering
to devise a plan; to work out a plan
frivolous; flippant; superficial; flattery; (insincere) compliments
vice; immorality; corruption
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
punishment; judgement; judgment; decapitation
strangling (to death); strangulation
to take back; to recapture
asleep (in bed); sick in bed
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse
to take (someone) out (for a walk, to lunch, etc.); to entice out; to lure away
eye measurement; measure with eye
presumption; assumption; estimation
whole family; entire family; all over the house; throughout the house; retainer of a daimyo; feudal domain
to scatter; to sprinkle; to distribute (flyers, etc.); to give out; to shake off (a pursuer, companion, etc.); to give the slip
rotation; making the rounds; spreading; effect; efficacy; by way of; via