severe; harsh; stringent; rigorous; strict; unfair
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
tightly; closely; exactly; precisely; suddenly (stopping); perfectly (suited)
of course; certainly; naturally
to have meaning; to be meaningful
to measure; to weigh; to survey; to conjecture; to infer; to surmise
estimate; guess; direction; bearings; registration mark (printing); approximately
familiarity with the land; (having) knowledge about a place
to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone); to entrust (to someone); to leave (to chance, one's imagination, etc.); to let (take its own course); to use (money, strength, spare time, etc.) to the full; to use freely
bringing; taking; carrying
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
folding book; counter for units of paper and nori (48 pages of Mino paper; 20 pages of hanshi; 10 sheets of nori); counter for folding books, folding screens, shields, etc.; counter for pairs (of curtains); counter for tatami mats
imagination; supposition; guess
play; playing; game; play and dance (at a kindergarten or elementary school)
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
taste (in goods, etc.); manners; etiquette; modesty; restraint; knowledge, experience (of the arts, etc.)
straight (from one place to another); going right onto; on the way; simultaneously; incidentally; directly
distance; difference; gap; disparity; gulf; chasm
thinking nothing of ...; undaunted by ...; in defiance of ...; in spite of ...; in the face of ...; ignoring ...
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
surface; face; outside; exterior; appearances; superficiality
exit; way out; outlet; vent
to desire; to want; to expect (of someone); to hope for; to see; to command (a view of)
paving (a road); surfacing (with asphalt, concrete, etc.); pavement
distinction; discrimination; distinguishing; discernment
territory; domain; field; area; domain; region
to rain incessantly; to downpour
to steam (food, towel, etc.); to be hot and humid; to be sultry
to vomit; to spit out; to breathe out (e.g. air); to exhale; to spend (e.g. saved money); to cough up
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
steaminess; sultriness; stuffiness
-smell; stinking of; smacking of; hinting of
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
similar figures (in geometry)
common; shared; to be common (to); to be shared (by); -wide
reduced scale; scaling down