fortress; stronghold; citadel
gun; cannon; artillery; ordnance
often; again and again; over and over again; repeatedly; frequently
script; libretto; scenario
to read thoroughly; to read repeatedly; to express (e.g. emotion in poetry); to read (extra meaning) into (something); to fetch (e.g. CPU inst.); to read (data into a system)
light; easy; non-serious; minor
surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
to disdain; to look down on; to make light of; to hold in contempt; to scorn; to despise
shooting; firing; emitting; ejection; projection; injection
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
(dead) body; corpse; carcass; remains
etc.; et cetera; and so on
exaggerated; overblown; pretentious
before it becomes (verb); before (an undesirable thing occurs)
ability; performance; efficiency
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
action of making something; -ification
wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected; irrelevant; off the point
concept; general idea; notion; intention; aim; design
disadvantage; drawback; demerit; bad point; minus
destructive power; destructive energy; destructive force
personal combat; one-to-one fight
that is to say; so that means
strength; power; proficiency; ability
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
to crumble away; to collapse
rock-paper-scissors (game); janken
reorganization; reorganisation; reshuffle
to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of
burst of laughter; roar of laughter