good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
technique; art; skill; move
to be added to; to be appended; to join in (e.g. a group of friends); to participate; to increase (e.g. heat); to gain in (e.g. influence)
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew
to be complete; to be all present; to be equal; to be uniform; to gather; to assemble
school inter-class ball-game competition
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
together; at the same time; same; identical
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
to hurt; to injure; to harm; to damage; to worry; to bother
willpower; guts; determination; character; nature; disposition
willingness (e.g. to do something); eagerness; motivation; inspiration; determination; high aspirations
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
art; technique; means; way; trick; trap
kendo; Japanese martial art using bamboo swords
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
historical play; period drama
to unite; to join; to do together; to confuse with
secret techniques (of an art or skill); inner mysteries; essence; quintessence; heart
(treasuring something by) never taking (it) off the premises
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
to pass (the night); to spend; to reveal; to divulge; to prove; to verify
listen!; you see; mind you; remember
so-so; passable; now, now; my, my
open; unconcealed; undisguised; broad; lewd; indecent
one long straight object (e.g. strand of hair, beam of light, wisp of smoke); a single bloodline; earnest; resolute; (arch.) ordinary; (arch.) common
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
to go with (a companion); to hang out with; to do together
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
playing dead; feigning death; playing possum