to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
physiology; menstruation; one's period; menses
student in a higher grade; upperclassman
good fortune (esp. omikuji fortune-telling result); good luck; auspiciousness; unspecified day of the month (used to obscure the date a letter, invitation, etc. was written)
women's liberation; emancipation of women
trend; tendency; momentum
one's real mother; natural mother; birth mother; biological mother
staringly; fixedly; unblinkingly
fixed; obvious; commonplace
skip it; drop it; I've had enough (e.g. when offered something); that's enough
to complete decisively; to do to completion
passion; passions; (sexual) desire; craving
tide; current; sea water; opportunity; chance; thin soup of fish or shellfish boiled in seawater
to show signs; to have symptoms; to give indications (of); to bud; to germinate; to sprout
outskirts; environs (of a city); surrounding area; surroundings
imperial villa; royal villa; detached palace
nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son
to look out on; to overlook; to face (a situation, crisis, etc.); to meet (e.g. death); to deal with (an issue); to attend (e.g. a function)
open; spacious; extensive
yearned for; longed for; missed
to open out (of a view, scenery, etc.); to spread out; to improve (of luck, prospects, etc.); to get better; to develop (of a town, civilization, etc.); to become civilized; to be sensible
nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
artificial; man-made; human work; human skill; artificiality
body; group; party; company; troupe
French; French food; French cuisine
to start making a noise; to start making an uproar; to go berserk
catercorner; diagonally opposite
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
something used to cover the eyes; blindfold; blinder; concealing one's home such that the interior cannot be seen from outside
geranium (usu. a cultivated pelargonium)
outline; summary; gist; roughly; about; nearly
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar