order; sequence; procedure
leaving school during a term
passing through (a tunnel, station, town, etc.); passing by (e.g. of a typhoon); passage (of a bill, e.g. through parliament); carriage; passing (an examination, inspection, etc.); clearing
academic background; academic credentials; academic record
commuting to school; school commute
Certificate for Students Achieving the Proficiency Level of Upper Secondary School Graduates; Japanese high-school equivalency examination
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
shut-in; stay-at-home; hikikomori; social withdrawal; shunning other people
social networking service; SNS
to reach back into one's memory; to search one's mind; to recall
to turn over (face down); to lay face down; to point downwards (eyes, head, etc.); to cast down (eyes); to lie (one's body) face down; to lie flat (on the ground)
hearer; listener; audience; interviewer; questioner
celebrity; famous person; public figure; big name
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
to grow timid; to cower; to become perverse; to become contrary; to be cramped; to be constrained
everywhere; at every turn
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
to become red; to redden; to blush
next year; next fiscal year
to begin to open; to come out; to smile broadly; to come apart at the seams (clothes)
winning a prize or place (in a contest)
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
slim; slender; lithe; smoothly; without resistance; without trouble
similarly; same (idea); same (name)
in the future; another day; later
last summer; summer of last year
(instruction) manual; handbook
to be outdone (by); to be in inferior (to); to compare unfavorably (with); to be behind
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
to clatter; to flap (noisily); to rattle; to walk around being unable to settle down
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext
honorable certificate; honourable certificate
to flick out; to spring out; to calculate; to work out; to expel (from a group); to drive out
to run past from behind; to run through (e.g. gate, one's mind)
sticking; clinging; with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard; all over; thickly
to run off (fluid); to run down; to flow down
creation; Creation (by God)