desperation; despair; self-abandonment
obsession; fixation; complaining; criticizing; speciality (e.g. of restaurants)
convenient; handy; useful
to take good care of; to treasure; to value; to hold dear; to prize; to cherish
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
smartly dressed; stylish; someone smartly dressed; to dress up; to be fashionable
eruption; volcanic eruption
to begin to fall (rain, etc.)
just like that; in the twinkling of an eye; in the blink of an eye; (lit.) in the time it takes to say "ah!"
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
metre; meter; meter; gauge
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
wisteria (esp. Japanese wisteria, Wisteria floribunda); wistaria
prime minister; chancellor (Germany, Austria, etc.); premier
door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows
day after day; day by day
to grow; to spring up; to sprout; to cut (teeth)
as a child; when one was a child; childhood
no!; no no!; no, not at all
wooden building blocks; wooden bricks; playing with building blocks; piled timber; piling up wood
to take; to catch; to capture
elephant (Elephantidae spp.)
circle; entirety; whole; money; dough; enclosure inside a castle's walls; soft-shelled turtle
toilet; restroom; bathroom; lavatory
to be worried; to be troubled
to come out all right; to take care of itself; to be OK
pot; (arch.) typical name for a female servant in the Edo-period; working at night; female with symptoms of gender identity disorder (e.g. a transvestite)
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
piece; fragment; one (object)
incidentally; taking the opportunity; while (you) are at it; on the occasion
greens; vegetables; rape (Brassica napus); rapeseed
appeal (e.g. to public opinion); plea; appeal (e.g. sex appeal); attractiveness; appeal (e.g. in baseball); emphasizing (strong points, etc.)
(in a) long time; long time (ago); while (ago); long ago; long while (ago); (in a) long while
to go around; to return; to surround; to concern (usu. of disputes)
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
young man; young woman; young people; youth; youngsters