scratch; graze; scrape; minor damage
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
setting the table; laying the table; setting up; getting one's ducks in a row; running interference
downfall; ruin; collapse; destruction
to be mixed up with; to have a connection with (a troublesome matter); to be a stickler about; to be finicky about (some triviality); to take part (in some work); to hang about
hating to lose; unyielding; unbending; competitive; sore loser; determined
irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; (already) enough; considerably
crotch; thigh; groin; crutch
formidable person; shrewd person; certain person (e.g. whose name cannot be disclosed); someone; (arch.) that sort of person; (arch.) that kind of person
foresight; foreknowledge; divination
to precede; to forestall; to anticipate
business hotel; cheap but conveniently located hotel with only basic conveniences, targeted at business travellers
to miss; to fail to get; to fail to obtain; to miss (the meaning); to misunderstand
madness; insanity; irregularity; deviation; fanaticism; fanatic
to understand from experience
short distance; close range
special order (goods); custom (made); bespoke
to take offense; to take offence; to get angry; to lose one's temper
to laugh at; to ridicule; to mock; to make fun of; to sneer at
to join; to piece together; to set (bones); to graft (onto a tree)
control; check; restraint; inhibition
none other than; ... himself; ... herself
coping method; approach; how to deal with (problem, etc.)
to underrate; to belittle; to look down on; to despise
to lure (someone) toward one; to lure (into); to entice
point in question (at issue)
to detest; to abhor; to loathe
to impress; to move one's heart; to touch (a person's heart)
to love one another; to be affectionate towards each other; to have sex; to make love
to give one's life (e.g. in battle); to devote one's life (e.g. to a cause)
to look away; to avert one's eyes; to avoid facing (e.g. reality)
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
failure; defeat; mistake; unconsciousness
positioning side-by-side; parallel arrangement; going along with something; following the crowd; treating something in an equal or egalitarian manner
to fall on one's shoulders (e.g. responsibility, duty)
overlapping; piling; stacking
vague; obscure; indistinct; hazy; ambiguous
to agree; to decide upon; to enter into (a contract)
key; mode (in gagaku); time; tempo; meter (of a poem); metre; style
clock to be placed on tables, bookshelves, etc. (as opposed to a watch)