to follow the sense; to understand the meaning of
each time it happens; at all such times
number of persons; personnel
to grow timid; to cower; to become perverse; to become contrary; to be cramped; to be constrained
head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)
to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case; to scold; to take (a person) to task
amateur; layman; respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute
not a moment to waste; there is no time to lose; cannot wait any longer
very high; high up; aloft; only; merely; just
leisure time; idle moment
signature move (assoc. with a martial artist, wrestler, etc.); finishing move
to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded
to slide; to slip off; to get dislocated; to be out of alignment; to get dislodged; to deviate
course; route; course (of study); program; lane (in running, swimming, etc.); course (of action); policy
on the occasion of; at the time of
to graze (e.g. bullet); to scratch; to touch lightly; to take a percentage; to exploit; to squeeze
only the results matter; it's all about the results
fortuitous; luck; windfall; godsend; good fortune
indescribable; having no way to express
divine or supernatural skill
region; limits; stage; level
leaving behind; desertion; abandonment
desperate situation with no escape; being driven into a corner; being cornered; last extremity
to fall on one's backside
to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep
innocent; naive; unsophisticated; birth-
little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old
no matter how much time passes
way to die; means of dying; quality of one's death
scaffold; scaffolding; foothold; footing; foothold (e.g. in business); foundation
cleaning up; sweeping up; mopping up
bloody; gory; covered in copious amounts of blood; desperate; frantic
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
nine parts; nine percent; almost
to look (stare) back at (somebody); to look at again; to re-examine; to prove oneself superior (to someone who had previously been condescending); to look back (behind oneself)
anything and everything; all sorts of things; by all means
to see through; to see the true nature of something
not worth (getting angry about, etc.)