excellent answer; clever answer
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
name one goes by; popular name; house name; name of a street; avenue name
to surpass; to outdo; to excel; to tower above (the surrounding landscape)
call; summons; call; invocation; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse)
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
unification; bringing together; generalization; control; supervision
stronghold; inner citadel; base; headquarters
strong person; the strong; the powerful
to have an audience (with); to have an interview (with); to meet; to see
to get (information) out of someone; to extract (information) from someone; to find out (through questioning); to begin listening (to)
light; easy; non-serious; minor
difficulty; hardship; trouble; infeasibility; inability (to carry out)
to refuse; to reject; to repel; to repulse; to make (someone) leave; to send away
nothing but; none other than
greedy; avaricious; covetous; raga (desire)
rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power
mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); insipidity
to deep-fry; to make deep-fried food; to launch (fireworks, etc.); to hoist (e.g. a flag); to summon (for geishas, etc.); to call in
(sense of) taste; counter for kinds of food, drink or medicine
abundant; plentiful; rich; ample
(already) known; established
fact; truth; reality; in fact; actually
that well-known ...; the one and only ...; that; those; the
to meet (someone of higher status); (arch.) to be recognized (esp. by someone of higher status); (arch.) to be visible; (arch.) to be seen
Surface Air Lifted (postal service); SAL
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
one night; one evening; all night; overnight
bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful
expression in writing; written representation; notation; writing on the surface (e.g. an address on an envelope); inscribing on the face
consumer (of a product, service, etc.); customer; (end) user; consumer (in a food chain)
confections; sweets; candy; cake
implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely