habit (usu. a bad one); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
playing dead; feigning death; playing possum
point of uncertainty; unclarified issue; doubt
idle talk; chit-chat; gossip
to come to know; to perceive; to realize; to realise; to become aware (of)
warfare in which soldiers fling themselves at the enemy; hand-to hand combat
honorable death; death without surrender; honorable defeat; trying but being utterly beaten; being completely rejected when professing one's love
step; stride; counter for steps
hand used like a sword in striking
to pierce through; to break through
bloodstained; bloody; covered with blood
criticism; judgement; judgment; comment
Shinto shrine precincts; holy precincts; sanctuary
to commit (e.g. crime); to perpetrate; to break (e.g. rule); to violate; to rape; to violate
lovely; sweet; pretty; cute; adorable
zero; 0; nought; nothing; zilch
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); fill-in-the-blank activity
in use; occupied (e.g. toilet); engaged
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
crackling (of fire, fireworks, etc.); sparking; sputtering; to fight; to argue
lightning; thunder; god of thunder; god of lightning; anger; fit of anger
pain; agony; suffering; distress; torment
to grimace; to make a wry face; to contort one's face
irritability; feeling of impatience; sense of uneasiness
moment; brief space of time
left arm; left-handed (baseball pitcher)
genuine; authentic; true; real
offset; offsetting each other; set-off; setoff; killing each other
as much as possible; unbeatably; unsurpassably
to become settled; to be fixed
by all means; at all costs
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
all around; as far as the eye can see
to shave off; to scrape off
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
left breast; left side of the chest
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
brethren; brothers; fellow countrymen; fellowman; compatriot
to use to the full (one's voice, energy, etc.); to muster all of (one's strength, courage, etc.); to summon all of; to exert fully; to strain (one's voice)
to burn into one's memory; to sear an image