boaster; braggart; bossy person; overbearing person
customer service office; CSO
Guri and Gura (children's book series)
gomasio; gomashio; roasted sesame seed and salt mixture; salt-and-pepper hair; dark hair streaked with gray
to walk away; to saunter off
care of schoolchildren outside of school time
fetching balls (tennis, baseball, etc.); ball boy
to be still half asleep; to be half awake; to be not yet quite awake
book with the look and layout of a magazine
sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)
self-conceit; self-satisfaction; self-righteousness; self-importance; complacency
like it or not; like or not like
charm against evil spirits; talisman; amulet
counseling room; counselling room; consulting room; advisory centre
law; regulation; rule; code; agreement; arrangement
to just appear; to be half out; to be on the tip of one's tongue
remaining; left-over; excess
overreliance on others; excessive babyishness; spoiled person (esp. child)
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
Vienna sausage; wiener; Vienna coffee; Viennese
gold mine; treasure trove; golconda; (lit.) mountain of treasures
family vacation; family trip
castella (type of sponge cake)
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
necessities; necessary article; requisite; essentials
of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant
separate; scattered; apart
notice of personnel change (appointment, dismissal, etc.); wording; choice of language; phraseology
sobbing; weeping; whimpering
one copy (of a book, magazine, etc.); one volume
to call out; to ask someone to come