muscle stiffness (esp. in shoulders)
notification; pre-1886 administrative order
crisp (e.g. potato chip, fried fish, etc.); crunchy; grumpily; touchily; scratching
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
thick (esp. paper, cloth)
to rise to the surface; to surface; to stand out (e.g. against a background)
that field; the authorities (esp. the police)
to admonish; to persuade; to warn; to remonstrate
to feel right; to sit well with one; to be happy about; to suit to a T; to fit well together
process; procedure; sequence; protocol; instruction
momentous (crucial) decision
adaptation; accommodation; conforming; acclimatization; acclimatisation
absorption; suction; aspiration; attraction; draw
characteristic quality; special character; one's function; one's duty; fief; inherited estate
defense; defence; safeguard; protection
combat; battle; action; active service; actual fighting
to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to
battlefield; battleground
to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)
being filled with; being full of; permeation
to tinker with; to fumble with; to twist up
warp; curvature; curve; arch
cultivation of aesthetic sensibility; education in good taste
to take over; to hand over
to be slippery; to be slimy
quite indifferent; looking blank; looking as though one has nothing at all to do with what is going on
common; commonplace; reckless; pulp paper; granulated sugar; (arch.) coins
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
state (of mind); mental state; field (of activity); one's lot; circumstance; place
to accustom; to train (e.g. one's ear); to tame; to domesticate; to train (an animal)
to make sense; to be meaningful
acquaintance; making someone's acquaintance
deep inside; innermost place
to arch; to be curved; to become bow-shaped; to bend backward