reality; actuality; actual conditions; ultimate reality; absolute truth
personification; impersonation; embodiment
fighting back; returning fire; counter-attack; responding to an attack; accepting a challenge
to be exhausted; to be tired out
staying in the air; remaining airborne
equal (in ability); even; evenly matched; well-matched; on par (with)
courage; ardour; high spirits
tendency; trend; inclination
much less; to say nothing of
lack of common sense; thoughtlessness; senselessness; irrationality; absurdity
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
to escape (disaster, death, etc.); to be saved from; to be rescued from; to avoid (e.g. punishment); to evade (e.g. responsibility); to avert
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
high ground; plateau; heights
to be wildly different; to be on a completely different scale; to be in a different league; to be poles apart; to stand no comparison; (lit.) to be on a different order of magnitude
you are quite right; reasonable; natural; just
duck; easy mark; sucker; sitting duck
retreat; withdrawal; retirement
one's way back; one's way home
rival; opponent; revenge; (arch.) spouse
order (esp. to a number of people); command; ritual of bowing at start and end of school class
one's nature; one's feelings; plain; unadorned; mere; poor
library; book series; library (software, modules, images, etc.)
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
worthy opponent; worthy rival; good match
acknowledgement; acknowledgment; recognition; cognition
the same rank; equality; apposition
prop; stay; support; brace; fulcrum
discrimination; discernment; identification
to call a person's attention (to)
calamity; disaster; accident
status; position; method; way; rule; regulation
jūbako; multi-tiered food box; heavy; serious; extreme; -fold