deciding match; play-off; runoff
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
meaning; significance; sense
harmonious; peaceful; congenial; luxuriant (vegetation)
understood; I see; OK; present; here
aid; assistance; help; cheering; rooting (for); support
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
department store; department
hurdle; hurdle race; hurdles; hurdle; obstacle
bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
to fall fast asleep; to be confined to one's bed; to be laid up
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
vacant land; unoccupied ground; empty lot
enclosure; fence; storage (of fruit, vegetables, etc.); partitioned area of a room for conducting tea ceremonies; mistress; castle
(apparently) that's what it's like, isn't it
adverse circumstances; adversity
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
deep emotion; impression; inspiration
previous time; last time; previous installment; previous instalment; previous session
cancelling (a debt); forgiving (a debt); being even; forgetting (what was said or done); pretending (something never happened)
profit; advantage; benefit; rebirth in paradise, entering nirvana
dot; spot; mark (in an exam, etc.); grade; point (in a game); score; point (in geometry)
to begin to like something (one did not initially like); to gradually become enamoured with something; to have something grow on you
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out
all-America; pan-American; all of America
to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl
banzai; hurray; something to cheer about; something worthy of celebration; giving up; throwing one's hands up
sukiyaki; thin slices of beef, cooked with various vegetables in a table-top cast-iron pan
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
relaxed and enjoyable; spacious; vast; heavily trafficked; bustling
scrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle