to be of help; to be useful; to go toward
absurdity; contradiction; incoherence; irrelevance
to render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of
experiments using animals; in-vivo testing; animal testing
cognitive impairment; senility; dementia
quick on the uptake; quick to catch on; perceptive; intuitive
seeing and hearing; (from) one's own experiences
reward; compensation; collateral; security; turning to look behind
dominion; territory; possession
advantage; benefit; profit; interest
thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article
account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters
to blur; to shade off; to gradate; to obscure; to make ambiguous
credibility; trustworthiness
first; preliminary; primary (sources, industry, etc.); original; linear (function, equation); first-order
being moved forcibly, e.g. being carted to a police station, transportation for forced labour, etc.
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
to brave; to risk; to harm; to afflict; to desecrate; to profane
overlapping; piling; stacking
one mind; wholeheartedness; one's whole heart
to hold out (e.g. against an attack); to hang on; to withstand; to endure; to last
fantasy; illusion; vision; dream
unproductive; counterproductive
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
being produced in a particular region; local specialty
corner; nook; recess; downstage right (on a noh stage)
hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds
to affix; to append; to entrust; to refer; to follow (the leader); to submit (a document, etc.)
to project; to show; to portray; to depict; to describe
to put an end to something; to get something over with; to quit something one has been engaged in too long or to an excessive degree