carrot (Daucus carota); Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng)
skin; hide; rind; peel; shell; sheath
chopped burdock root (and sometimes carrot) cooked in sugar and soy sauce
shabby; mean; sorry; dingy
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
occasionally; once in a while; seldom; casually; unexpectedly; accidentally
publisher; publishing house; publishing company
to get carried away; to get overly elated; to become over-excited; to get up to speed; to move into gear
big mouth; mouth opened wide; boastful speech; tall talk; large amount; large quantity
first-class; top grade; characteristic; peculiar; school (e.g. of a performance art); one flag
child one is expecting; child in one's womb
companion; follower; attendant; retinue
full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself
stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete
intellectual; educated person; intelligentsia
to have a warped view; to be jaundiced; to feel that one has been unfairly treated; to be jealous; to be envious
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
have it your way; to hell with you!; get rooted!; bugger you!
threshold (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors); sill
to step over; to step across; to stride over; to stretch over; to span; to bridge
to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt
(not so) much; (not) very
since one was born; (in) all one's life
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)
at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just
popular figure; person in demand; favorite; favourite
author; writer; novelist; artist
(husband and wife) both working; dual income
housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters
poor (living); barely continuing; just scraping along; very narrow
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
to be stingy; to be tightfisted
stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
public matter; governmental matter; prince; duke; lord; sir