hill; height; knoll; bonus points awarded to the winner at the end of a game
to launch; to shoot up; (of waves) to dash; to wash up (ashore); to finish (e.g. a theater run, sumo tournament); to close
one's last moment; one's death; one's end
to wait for a favorable chance; to wait for a favourable chance
heathen; heretic; pagan; nonconformist; freethinker; iconoclast
to perform; to play; to act
honour; honor; dignity; prestige; reputation; appearances
decoration; ornament; trimmings
intonation; accent; modulation; inflection
to be knotty (of a tree, etc.); to be gnarled; to be rough and bony (hands, fingers, etc.); to be gnarled; to be knobby
large tree; big tree; huge tree
to end in vain; to be wasted effort
self-praise; praising oneself
eternal; everlasting; unchangeable; invariant
to establish a lead; to distinguish (between); to ascertain or tell the difference (between); to discriminate
falsely similar; counterfeit
to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)
to trample flat; to beat a path
disadvantage; handicap; drawback; inadvisability; inexpediency; loss
kamidana; household shrine; home shrine
to offer; to sacrifice; to dedicate
to drip; to drop; to trickle; to overflow (with freshness, beauty, etc.)
offensive smell; off-flavor; off-flavour
in the same way as; just like
to agree; to decide upon; to enter into (a contract)
ceasing to think; refusing to think critically; giving up thinking (for oneself); going blank; mental block; inability to think clearly
to climb over; to get over; to surmount; to overcome; to surpass; to overtake
check; restraint; oppression; suppression
courting; wooing; making advances
harm; evil; poison; blight; harmful influence
antinomy; self-contradiction; either-or situation; choice between mutually exclusive alternatives
to worry about; to be vexed
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
segment; slice; section; intercept
already completed (arrived, happened, etc.)
to slip through; to make one's way through quickly
to blow along (in the wind); to set adrift
grave marker; gravestone; headstone; writing on a headstone (name, date of death, etc.)