murder; killing; murderer
debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money
innocence; insentient (i.e. plants, inanimate objects, etc.); free from obstructive thoughts; to pester someone (for cash, etc.)
at any rate; in any case; at the very least; if nothing else
isolation; being alone; being friendless
dull; uninteresting; insignificant; unimportant; absurd; foolish
to demarcate; to delimit; to divide (an area); to punctuate; to put an end to (e.g. a sentence); to insert pauses or breaks (e.g. when reading aloud)
extremely angry; furious; fiercely (shine); blazingly; merrily (burn away); red-hot
sunshine; dry weather; luster; lustre
record high; all-time high
breaking down; defeating; abolishing
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player
idea; plan; fancy; impulse; thought; whim
to have a limit; to go too far (e.g. joke)
cola (carbonated soft drink); kola tree (Cola acuminata, etc.); cola tree
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty
soda pop (esp. fruit-flavored); pop; (fizzy) lemonade; sweet carbonated drink
you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs; you can't solve a problem without making some sacrifice
profit; advantage; benefit; rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana
consent; approval; acceptance; agreement; compliance
rock-paper-scissors (game); janken
turn (in line); order of things; sequential order
rock (in rock-paper-scissors); stone; ungh; gulp; rumbling (of an empty stomach); growling
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
to backfire; to produce a result opposite to what was expected or intended
in order; in turn; one by one
technology; technique; technical
association (of ideas); being reminded (of something); suggestion
the "ra" column of the Japanese syllabary table (ra, ri, ru, re, ro)
squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae); Japanese squirrel (Sciurus lis)
Japanese plum (Prunus salicina); Chinese plum
model; dummy; model (profession); fashion model; model (of a vehicle, machine, etc.); version; model (e.g. mathematical)
rocket (Eruca sativa); arugula; roquette
Japanese leek (Allium chinense); Chinese onion; sour-sweet pickle of Japanese leek
mysterious; bewitching; alluring; enticing; enchanting
binding; regulation; limit; binding period (e.g. phone or broadband contract); minimum contract term
turning things around with a home run; turning the tables with a single successful attack (move)