high efficiency; high performance
(with) only a few left; (with) little left
fourth day of the month; four days
passage (of time); elapsing; progress; development; transit
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
geta; Japanese wooden clogs; turn (in set-type proofing); upside-down character
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
corner; bend; segment (within a radio or TV program); session; area; department
head; lead; vanguard; first
to continue; to last; to continue (without a break); to be unbroken; to occur again and again; to lead to; to connect to
to be sticky; to be adhesive; to persevere; to persist; to stick to
fierce; intense; severe; violent; strong; vehement
final stage; final stretch; live printing area (in publishing); gallery (in a theatre); driving (animals, fish, etc.); herding
first arrival; first in race; suit of clothes
to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one
hiss (esp. cat); sizzle; whoosh
environment; circumstance
ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land
to dry up; to parch; to ebb away
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
true seal (animal); earless seal
to lose (something); to mislay; to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove
these days; nowadays; recently
each (person); individually; one by one; one at a time; in turn
temperature; body temperature (human, animal)
to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
sniff; sniff-sniff (esp. an animal); whining; whimpering
sweat; perspiration; moisture; condensation; gulp; oops
unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)