to begin making a sound (ringing, singing, crying, etc.)
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
for (e.g. "she dances well for an eight-year old"); considering it's (something or someone)
rising diagonally up and to the right; growing; expanding; soaring
to hit (e.g. to have a car hit someone); to run into; to reject; to deny; to eliminate; to exclude; to flip
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or somebody else
at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just
disorder; chaos; confusion; mayhem
bad (taste); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
conventional train line (esp. non-Shinkansen)
to connect (with a different flight, train, etc.); to make a connection; to change (planes, trains, etc.)
prefecture (Japan); county (China, Taiwan, Norway, etc.); department (France); province (Italy, Spain, etc.)
going through; going via; going by way of
for better or worse; for good and bad; regardless of merit; both good and bad
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
after having come this far; now that we've come this far
to the very end; to the bitter end; to the last; to the hilt; thoroughly
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
to cause someone to worry
magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly
guidance; protective custody
to recommend; to endorse (e.g. a candidate); to infer (from); to deduce; to think (something) through; to ponder deeply
examination; quiz; test; tryout; rehearsal (in filming)
to lie in wait (for); to be on the watch (for); to wait (for); to watch (for)
(spaghetti alla) carbonara
to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around
demi-glace (type of brown sauce)
duty; sense of duty; honor; in-law; relation by marriage
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
to gulp down; to swallow deeply; to understand; to take in; to engulf; to swallow up
to bolt down (food); to gulp down; to carry under the arm; to rake in; to rake towards one
female high-school student