character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
to become pale; to turn pale
total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
the West; the Occident; Western countries
to boost; to force up; to push up
double; twice (as much); twofold
profile; face in profile; face seen from the side; (personal) profile; (biographical) sketch; outline (of someone's life)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
to stand up straight; to stand on end (e.g. of hair); to have the creeps
(laughing) foolishly; (smiling) thoughtlessly; indiscreetly (talking); carelessly (speaking); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
characteristic (of); peculiar (to)
as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all
mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
pattern; design; body build; figure; essential qualities; character
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
heh heh heh; tee-hee; giggle
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
to stop; to cease; to come to an end; to cut off
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (somebody)
to speak (of something); to be effective; to be powerful; to mean everything
how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
to talk; to chat; to chatter
taking a long time; slowness; sluggishness; lack of firmness; looseness; slovenliness
with difficulty; faltering; tottering; awkward
magic; witchcraft; sorcery; spell
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend