ability; competency; talent; skill; capacity
training; drill; practice; practising; discipline
gift; boon; (good) result; fruit (e.g. of one's efforts)
paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor
first move (in go, shogi, etc.); moving first; person with the first move; forestalling; (seizing the) initiative
able-bodied; robust; sturdy; strong
peacetime; time of peace; ordinary times; normal times
explosive; sudden and dramatic (of an increase in sales, popularity, etc.); explosive; rapid
getting closer; drawing nearer; being not much different; being near (age, skill, etc.); becoming close (i.e. friendly); becoming intimate
occasion; time; section (of a literary work); paragraph; season; term; principle
consists of; comprises; is made up of
pointed end; tip; point; forefront; vanguard; spearhead
flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion
appearance; arrival; make one's appearance
Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!
blow; shock; strike; batting
change; alteration; modification
to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
cave-in; collapse; sinking; depression (e.g. of the skull); subsidence
crack; fissure; rift; split; chaps; skin fissure
to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate
needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer
to bend; to warp; to yield; to be supple (e.g. bamboo, body); to be flexible; to be pliant
to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
to act as an intermediary; to step in; to come between; to intervene; to interject
to be crowded; to be packed; to be complex; to go into; to put into; to do intently
to create; to bring forth; to invent; to think up and bring into being; to give birth to; to bear
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
to add; to add up; to increase; to gather (e.g. speed); to include; to count in
to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)
liver; innards; courage; spirit; crux; essential point