heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
nothing new; same as always; an old story; nothing new about it; not the first time it has happened
malicious; spiteful; vicious; shady and damp
to brush off; to shake off
to think out; to devise; to invent; to begin to think; to come up with a plan
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
exclusion; removal; rejection; elimination; abatement; lifting (sanctions, etc.)
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
penalty; sentence; punishment
storytelling (of war chronicles, revenge tales, etc.) with highly dramatic delivery; story
company; association; regional Chinese god of the earth (or a village built in its honour); counter for companies, shrines, etc.
ghastly; gruesome; appalling; lurid
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
(practical) experience; personal experience; hands-on experience; first-hand experience
base; basis; base (e.g. military); depot; base; base bag
narrator; storyteller; reciter
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
belonging to (a group, organization, etc.); affiliation (with); being attached to; being under the control of
intimate friend; close friend; bosom buddy; chum
on one occasion; once; at one point; at one time
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
transfer student; student changing schools
newly arrived; newly joined; newly entered; newcomer
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
lively; active; vigorous; animated; brisk
to look (sound, behave) grown-up; to be adult-like; to mature
to yearn for; to long for; to follow (someone); to idolize (for virtue, learning, status, etc.)
failure; mistake; blunder
pronoun; synonym; classic example; pattern
to deceive; to falsify; to dodge; to beg the question (issue, difficulties); to varnish over; to gloss over
to shout (in anger); to yell