pressure; urgency; tension; imminence; acuteness
to hurt; to ache; to feel a pain; to be injured; to be spoiled (e.g. food); to be damaged
description; expression (in words); qualification (e.g. of a noun with an adjective); form; figure; appearance
mouse; rat; dark gray; slate gray
to torment; to harass; to tease; to extort; to shake down; to demand money
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
to snatch (from someone); to tear (away); to steal
to have (urgent) business; to have something one needs to attend to; to have something one wants to say (to someone)
to take back; to recapture
notes; comment; remark; annotation
to add (one thing to another); to add (a few more words, an explanation, etc.)
confinement; imprisonment; incarceration
draining basket (traditionally made of bamboo); colander; something full of holes; zaru soba; strong drinker; someone who can drink like a fish
leak (of secrets, information, etc.); disclosure; divulging; leak (of gas, liquid, etc.); leakage; escape (of gas)
to get narrower; to contract
miserable; pitiable; shameful; deplorable; pathetic
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
to picture; to come into one's mind; to remember
exactly; precisely; closely; tightly; properly; without fail
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
rival; opponent; revenge; (arch.) spouse
one more; another (one); (not) quite; (not) entirely; (not) enough
(lit.) blood flows; to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood"
flat; even; level; plain (language, words, etc.); simple
forbidding mentioning (something to others); imposing silence (on); ordering (someone) to keep quiet; hush money
action; operation; process; agency; effect; function
to breathe out; to exhale
outsider; someone outside of a group
to stay indoors; to be confined indoors
to borrow; to rent; to hire; to make use of (another's help, wisdom, etc.); to obtain; to use (for another purpose)
to play dumb; to feign ignorance; to play the fool; to be in one's dotage
under development; in development
being heard (by others); being overheard; being leaked (of plans, secrets, etc.); going in one ear and out the other
face; mask; face guard; striking the head (in kendo); surface (esp. a geometrical surface); page; aspect
total; complete; all-out; general; extensive; full-scale
to look at again; to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review; to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light; to improve
we are of equal status in this regard; we are in the same boat; the same to you; the feeling is mutual
principal occupation; core business
ancestral; hereditary; handed down from generation to generation; for generations; from generation to generation
to be due to; to be caused by; to depend on; to turn on; to be based on; to come from
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth