curry (esp. Japanese curry); rice and curry
flavor; flavour; charm; appeal; experience; taste (e.g. of victory)
cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
feast; treating (someone); to treat (someone, e.g. to a meal)
for the first time in one's life
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
memory; recollection; remembrance; storage
to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
blue; azure; green; pale; gray; unripe
pretty; lovely; clean; clear; completely; entirely
March; third month of the lunar calendar
pudding (esp. custard); black hair dyed blond but where the roots have again turned black
ageing; aging; senile deterioration
ingredient; component; composition
approximately; about; promise; appointment; shortening; reduction
double; twice (as much); twofold
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid
woman; female; feminine gender
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow; anyhow; one way or another
effect; effectiveness; efficacy; effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
companion; fellow; group; company; member of the same category (family, class)
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state
what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?
character (of a person); personality; disposition; characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.)
strange; unfamiliar; unknown; unfamiliarity; strangeness; stranger
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice