daring; fearless; audacious; bold; dauntless; daredevil
localized (pain, rainfall, etc.); local
overlapping; piling; stacking
connection; link; relationship
not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser
smallish; on the small side; somewhat small; short swing of a bat, racquet, etc.
carriage; poise; bearing; demeanor; movement (of the body)
without looking aside; looking neither right nor left; wholeheartedly; single-mindedly
of all people; a person of ...'s standing
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
savage; wild; unruly; to behave roughly; to get wild
immediately; right away; at once; easily; readily
Japanese dock (Rumex japonicus)
remnants of an enemy army
to gain strength; to gather momentum; to be encouraged; to be heartened; to be invigorated; to take heart
with a single blow; with one stroke
old army general; veteran army general
once-in-a-lifetime (opportunity); golden (opportunity); one-in-a-million (chance)
ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot); forerunner; pioneer
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
questions and answers; dialogue
to force one's way through
yell; shout; cry; roar; howl
raging fire; conflagration
to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle
belligerence; fighting spirit
be on your guard; negligence is the enemy
to treat leather, sharkskin, etc. with glue and pound until hard
intense; violent; severe; vehement
thin; slender; slim; skinny
heavy, thick, long, and big (products, esp. industrial); massive and heavy; heavy (industry)
lack of ability; inadequacy; (being) out of one's depth
reserve; spare; treasured; valued; (ace) up one's sleeve; trump
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
to suck up; to pump up; to siphon off (profits, etc.); to exploit; to take up others' opinions, hopes, etc.
true; real; genuine; proper; utter
bending; curving; warping (of feelings, logic, etc.); distortion; refraction; inflection
design concept; design philosophy; basic ideas behind a design
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante)