interview; audience; meeting; (viewing) party
to be; to exist; to be (honorific copula)
soup containing rice cakes and vegetables (New Year's dish)
slight; little; insignificant
lively; full of spirit; energetic; healthy; well; fit
to show understanding; to appreciate; to be positive about
large seal; large stamp; seal of approval; guarantee; endorsement
fast asleep; dead to the world
gaudy; showy; garish; crooked; vicious; wicked
Baekje (ancient Korean kingdom; 18 BCE-660 CE); Paekche
coherence; order; focus; point
the more I think about it; the more one thinks about it
Nagasaki-e; print produced in Nagasaki during the Edo period
ratio; proportion; match; equal; explicit comparison (style of the Shi Jing); Philippines
red earth (i.e. containing cinnabar or minium); vermilion
lofty; soaring; towering; precipitous; high and steep; sharply sticking out
type of candy given to a child after it wakes up from a nap; wake-up sweets
to be beyond one's capacities; to be beyond one's powers; to be beyond one's control; to be unmanageable
pity; sympathy; compassion; affection; love
promise; agreement; arrangement; something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)
throne; crown; government position; court rank; social standing; rank; grade (of quality, etc.)
to be given; to be granted; to be honored with; to give; to bestow; to confer
lapse of memory; forgetting completely; (consigning to) oblivion
impossible; unthinkable; unimaginable
shouting in a thunderous voice
one jump; one flight; (at) once; (in) one stroke
to leap back; to jump back
lower grade; low class; junior (officer)
permission; approval; authorization; to permit; to authorize
to stick out too much; to protrude too far; to be too strong (e.g. of tea); to be too forward; to be too assertive; to be pushy
to tie one on; to get drunk
dismissal; sacking; discharge
newspaper story (article, account)
blame; censure; rebuke; reproof