to exhaust one's vocabulary (in trying to persuade somebody or explain something, etc.); to run out of words; to be verbose; to cajole; to talk someone's head off
protection; safeguard; shugo (Kamakura or Muromachi period military governor)
to disappear; to vanish; (arch.) to die
end; tip; end (of the year, month, etc.); close; youngest child; descendants; offspring
mutation; change; transition
source of river; fountainhead
piece; fragment; one (object)
to compare; to make a comparison; to compete; to vie
exceptional; unusual; special; especially; exceptionally; unusually
(somebody's) child; person with parents; other people's children; the Son of Man; Christ
to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for
soon; in a moment; nearby; close; direct; spot transaction
to guide; to lead; to show the way; to derive; to deduce
drought; long spell (period) of dry weather
easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
to forget completely; to leave behind
one's heart; one's feelings; one's inner thoughts; one's mind
to burn; to scorch; to singe; to char
(lit.) blood flows; to have the blood of ... running in one's veins (artist, warrior, etc.); to be born with particular skills, characteristics, etc.; to have something "in one's blood"
ancestor; forefather; foremother
base of the throat; bottom of the neck
toes; tips of the toes; toe of a shoe, sock, etc.
to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)
to clamber (up); to scale
to climb; to clamber (over, up); to scramble (up); to scale; to claw one's way up
approximate age; apparent age; marriageable age (esp. of a woman); age of maturity; appropriate age (to ...); old enough (to ...)
incident; affair; happening; event
don't you think?; indicates question
timidly; nervously; with nervous diffidence; trembling with fear
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
to put back; to return; to vomit; to throw up; to recover (of a market price)
turning over; flipping over; reply; response; marks written alongside characters in a classical Chinese text to indicate their ordering when read in Japanese; lapel
oral instruction; passing information by word-of-mouth; oral tradition