scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
to get angry; to take offense; to take offence; to be furious
happy; glad; pleased; joyful; delightful; gratifying
enjoyable; fun; pleasant; happy; delightful
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
difficult problem; challenge
to thrust at someone (e.g. a weapon); to point (a gun, knife, etc.) at; to hold up threateningly to (someone's face); to present forcefully (demand, document, etc.); to confront someone with (evidence, facts, etc.); to force upon
to notice; to realize; to be attentive; to be scrupulous; to regain consciousness; to come to (one's senses)
what kind of; what sort of; what
explosion; detonation; blast; outburst (of emotion); explosion (e.g. of anger); eruption (e.g. of discontent)
term; period; time frame; time limit; deadline; cutoff (date)
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
strangely; oddly; miraculously; mysteriously
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
graduation ceremony; commencement
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
to empty; to remove; to move out; to clear out; to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily); to dawn
January; first month of the lunar calendar
6th day of the month; six days
winter vacation; winter holidays
to start; to begin; to challenge; to pick (a fight); to set (traps); to plant (explosives)
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
tune; tone; vein; mood; condition; state of health
grass used for thatching; sedge used for thatching
New Year (esp. first three days); first month of the year; January
far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
plump; rotund; chubby; entirely; completely; wholly
to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)
sliding safely; just making it; being just on time
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
to begin to say; to start talking; to broach (a matter); to be the first to say; to suggest (doing); to propose
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
consequence; outcome; result; blame; fault
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
to collect (e.g. one's thoughts); to get in order
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
to differ (from); to be different; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to become abnormal; to go wrong
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
all one's power (strength, energy, efforts); one's utmost
to pretend not to see; to turn one's back on
even a little; any at all; if only a little; no matter how little
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
to continue; to keep up; to keep on; to continue ...; to keep on ...