obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
nailing on; nailing down; being stationary; being rooted to the spot; (price) pegging
divide into four pieces; one fourth
slowly (but steadily); gradually; irritatedly; impatiently; scorchingly (of the sun); sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil); sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc.
cold; chilly; cold (attitude, stare, etc.); frigid; composed; cool
the country; countryside; outskirts; suburbs; presence; being in attendance
lack of words; being tongue-tied; suppressing what you want to say
normalization; normalisation
re-; again; repeated; deutero-; deuto-; deuter-
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; soaring (prices); shooting up
drawing; diagram; plans; blueprint
oral; verbal; spoken; parol
to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to; to passively leave to someone else's facilities; to leave to take its natural course; to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim); to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant
anyway; anyhow; at any rate; in any case
no way to do; nothing can be done
to wager; to bet; to risk; to stake; to gamble
sense of duty; sense of purpose; vocation
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
before very long; soon; someday; of the previously mentioned; of that number; among them
but; however; provided that
concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
whole; all; general; gross; entire; overall
individual; one by one; separate; each
usually; under usual circumstances
pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements
attitude; posture; preparedness; readiness
speaking without thinking; words spoken without much thought
extraterrestrial life; ET
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
odd; strange; queer; peculiar
irrational; illogical; unreasonable; absurd; inconsistent
classification; categorization; sorting
in turns; alternately; in order
extremely busy; (lit.) wanting even the help of a cat
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
to blaze; to burn brightly
(not) altogether; (not) wholly
still (continuing); as ever; further
one's duty; responsibilities pertaining to one's work