desire; wish; request; entreaty; prayer; (written) application
disintegration; self-destruction
fragment; broken piece; splinter; chip; shard
to leap back; to jump back
to defend oneself; to protect oneself
to escape from; to get out
bomb blast; blast (from an explosion); shock wave
to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet; to recover; (of the market) to improve
absentmindedness; preoccupation; setting one's mind at ease; ceasing to worry; (arch.) loss of one's moral sense; (arch.) straying from virtue
quiver; quaver; flutter; statistical fluctuation
to become familiar (to one's ears)
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
mastery; skillfulness; dexterity; master hand; expert
chill; the shivers; shivering fit
slashing (with the blade pressed against the object); mowing down (the enemy); cutting down (one after the other); clean sweep; sweeping conquest
identical; same; one and the same; fair; equal treatment; without discrimination
to be scorched into; to be seared into; to make a strong impression; to be etched in (one's memory)
to be imminent; to loom; to be approaching; to be impending
making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (of letters)
gale; violent (strong) wind
to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander
one gō (approx. 180 ml); one gō (approx. 0.33 square meters); one-tenth of the distance from the base to the summit of a mountain
finger; hands and fingers; hands
perforation; punching; boring; drilling
impossible; incapable (of doing); incompetence; inability; impotence; having no solution (of an equation)
covering for the back of the hand and wrist
to keep someone from doing; to stop; to prevent; to check; to hinder; to obstruct
carapace; shell; 1st in rank; grade A; instep; back of hand
occurrence; incidence; generation (of power, heat, etc.); production; ontogeny; development
(lower) abdomen; hypogastrium; genitals; private parts
to kick into (e.g. a ball into a goal)
heel (of foot, shoe, stocking, etc.)
mackerel (esp. the chub mackerel, Scomber japonicus); server (esp. in an online game)
ring finger; third finger; fourth finger (esp. in piano-playing); fourth toe
to call in; to invite; to bring in
tightrope walking; high-wire act; funambulism; treading a tightrope; walking on thin ice; pulling a risky balancing act
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to mislead; to misguide; to do accidentally; to do by mistake
for dear life; barely escaping alive
to re-grip; to re-wrestle; to regroup (after some adverse event)