influence; effect; impact
to be smart; to be cool; to be sharp; to be stylish
stupid girl; stupid woman
charm; fascination; glamour; glamor; attraction; appeal
to drop; to lose; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice)
well-matched (esp. of a couple); becoming; suitable
no; you're welcome; not at all; don't mention it
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
reconciliation; making up (with); making peace (with); being friends again; patching up a quarrel
to be worried; to be troubled
rod; pole; neck (of a shamisen, etc.); shamisen; beam (i.e. the crossbar of a balance); single line (esp. as a flying formation for geese); penis
peace of mind; relief; (sense of) security; safety; assurance; confidence
contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade
never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up
doll; puppet; marionette; puppet (person under the control of another); straw man; yes-man
wash basin; wash bowl (incl. portable bowl in a public bath)
ticket; token; label; tag; sign; card; playing card
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
to rot; to go bad; to corrode; to weather; to become useless; to blunt; to become depraved
mandarin (esp. the satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu)); mandarin orange; tangerine; citrus (Citrus spp.)
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
pole; rod; line; dash; spoken monotonously
to support each other; to support one another
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
to strike; to hit; to attack; to bash; to sound out (someone's views); to pound (meat or fish); to chop into small pieces
instant; moment; for an instant
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
to take out; to produce; to pick out; to fetch; to retrieve
foreign substance; foreign body; strange object; unusual object; (arch.) dead body; (arch.) corpse
concentration (on a task); focusing one's attention; concentration (of population, buildings, power, etc.); centralization; within a collection of works
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); feline; shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom (submissive partner of a homosexual relationship)
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
hey!; c'mon!; pushy; overbearing; self-assured
choo-choo; chug-chug; chuff-chuff; brush-brush; scrub-scrub
youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
like; similar to; something like ...; someone like ...
to burn; to roast; to broil; to heat; to heat up; to make (charcoal, pottery, bricks, etc.); to bake
moment; instant; kshana; duration of a single mental event (about 1/75 second); shortest possible interval of time
to swim; to struggle through (a crowd); to make one's way through the world; to get along (in life); to totter; to lose one's balance
ghost; spirit; apparition; spiritual body; causal body