special training; intensive training; crash course
to play an instrument (esp. string instruments); to dance
dash at the beginning of a short-distance race; charging ahead at full strength from the beginning
national customs and manners; provincial song or ballad; waka (classical Japanese poetry, as opposed to Chinese poetry)
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow (i.e. bending of the body); bowing; reward
to be affected; to be theatrical; to be pompous
suitable; appropriate; befitting; conjoining; association; samprayukta
(powers of) concentration; ability to concentrate
to sharpen; to grind; to whet; to hone; to make keen
to throw up (e.g. mud); to splash (up); to flip up; to tip up; to raise sharply (e.g. prices); to hike
to bake (a design onto ceramic); to fire (on); to burn into (one's memory); to sear into; to print (from a negative); to brand; to fuse together (metals)
moment; instant; kshana; duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second); shortest possible interval of time
rather than; more ... than ...
possibility; chance; potential; potentiality; possibility (modal property of a proposition containing no logical contradiction)
to steal; to rob; to take away
to pull out; to draw out; to pick out; to take (a sample); to steal (the contents of something); to pilfer
comma; decimal point; radix point
execution (e.g. of a plan); carrying out; (putting into) practice; execution (of a program); run
slow motion (video); moving slowly; moving leisurely
the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since
user; consumer; master (e.g. of swordsmanship); prodigal; spendthrift
nerve; nerves; sensitivity
quick work; (clever) feat
to triumph; to be elated with success
unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident
one-sided; unilateral; arbitrary
second; number two; runner-up
several; a few; number; quantity; counting; calculation; number
infinity; infinitude; eternity; infinite; limitless
and; moreover; besides; as well as; and on top of that; at the same time
to drive into (e.g. a nail into a board); to hit into (e.g. a home run into the stands); to throw into (e.g. jail); to drum into (someone) (an idea, skill, etc.); to hammer into
to assault with a sword; to stab at; to slash at
annihilation; extermination; (total) destruction; wiping out
back; rear; background; behind the scenes
obi (kimono sash); obi (strip of paper looped around a book, CD, etc. containing information about the product); band; belt; cingulum; radio or television program broadcast in the same time slot on all or most days
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
to kill one's enemy (opponent)
to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline
head; brains; intellect; understanding
absorption; giving undivided attention; devoting oneself (to)