whereabouts; place where one is; position; location
to be the ruin of (a person)
discharge; outward flow; efflux; leak of (private) information or pictures
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
bending; curving; warping (of feelings, logic, etc.); distortion; refraction; inflection
pattern; figure; state; condition; conjecture of the current situation; the way it seems; model
fern (esp. species Gleichenia japonica); fernery
alteration (of character or essence); change in quality; transformation; deterioration; degeneration; transmutation
to chuckle to oneself; to gloat (over)
questioning; interrogation; examination (of a witness)
jostle; struggle; scuffle
outward; superficial; external; apparent
to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
false name; alias; assumed name; pseudonym
emphasis; highlight; stress; stressed point
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
identity or background check (often to see if someone is a burakumin)
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
hail (esp. hailballs under 5 mm); graupel; dicing; small cubes; roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, etc.)
to be puffed up with pride; to throw out one's chest
magnificent; grand; fair; square; grandly; boldly
group (of people); crowd; horde; throng; mob; multitude
witness stand; witness box
elated; triumphant; proud
inevitable; inescapable; unavoidable
(flower) bud; promising young person; budding beauty
lotus flower; Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus); china spoon; lotus-shaped pedestal for a gravestone
mid-air; mid-heaven; zenith
brilliant; glorious; glittering; bright; splendid (e.g. achievement, success); promising (e.g. future)
brilliance; splendour; splendor; lustre; luster
instead of; replacing; on behalf of
rocky area; rocky tract; rocky stretch (of a climb); wall (of rock)
skin; outer skin; integument; husk; hull; shell