plausible (but untrue); credible (e.g. of a lie); specious; truthy
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity
dress; outfit; equipment; makeup; adornment; guise
to succeed in doing; to manage to do; to finish doing
body; oneself; one's place; one's position; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.)
to decorate; to ornament; to display; to exhibit; to mark (e.g. the day with a victory); to adorn (e.g. the front page)
gō; traditional unit of volume, approx. 0.1804 litres; gō; traditional unit of area, approx 0.33 metres square; one-tenth of the way from the base to the summit of a mountain; conjunction; sum
law-like nature; regularity
stubbornness; obstinacy; disposition; nature; appetite; desire
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
to blame; to reproach; to question (a suspect); to challenge; to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
fabrication; put-up job; trumped-up story; frame-up; hoax
distortion; falsification; perversion
ingratiation; pandering; catering (to); going along with (someone or something); accommodating oneself (e.g. to public opinion)
equality; impartiality; evenness
to surpass; to outstrip; to excel
to be affected; to put on airs; to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be
true intention; underlying motive
autonomous; autonomic; self-sustaining; self-directed
hostility; animosity; enmity
rehash; (boring) rerun; second brew of tea
small quantity; little; little while; short distance
costume; fancy dress; masquerade; converted (cruiser)
God; god; ace; king; superior person
(not) by any means; (not) for anything; wouldn't do for anything; had enough; flatly refusing
nobleman; dignitary; feudal lord (of the Edo period); daimyō; man brought up away from the world; arrogant man with little knowledge of the ways of the world
law of nature; natural law
banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up
peerless; unparalleled; unparallelled
pardon; extenuation; borrowing; borrowing a kanji with the same pronunciation to write a similar-sounding word
accomplishment; realization; attainment; penetration; pervasion
before one's eyes; in front of one; under one's nose; immediate; imminent; around the corner
to thrust before; to thrust at
lukewarm; tepid; indifferent; halfhearted
to get; to secure; to learn; to master; to complete
simile; metaphor; allegory; parable