to spring; to jump up; to fly up; to skip
piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild
to stir up; to poke (the fire); to beat (an egg); to arouse (interest, feelings, etc.); to stir; to stoke
pitiful; pathetic; painful to look at
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
to whisper; to murmur; to rumor; to rumour
commuting to school; school commute
path; lane; small diameter; small radius
confusion; distraction; derangement
to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
willpower; guts; determination; character; nature; disposition
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
prank; practical joke; horseplay; mischievous trick
section (i.e. of text); sentence; phrase; verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry); haiku; first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game
to mince; to cut fine; to carve; to engrave; to tick away (time); to beat out (e.g. rhythm); to etch (into one's mind)
natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder
ruffled (hair, brush bristles, etc.); unkempt; dishevelled; idling away time; dawdling; dilly-dallying
to be disheartened; to be dejected; to be discouraged; suddenly (losing a lot of weight); looking emaciated; becoming very thin
to slim down; to lose weight
pathological; morbid; unhealthy; diseased; unwholesome; abnormal
collapsing in the street (from exhaustion, illness, etc.); falling dead in the street; person lying dead in the street
the head; the foremost; beginning; the very front
to bite into; to sink one's teeth into; to stick to; to cling to; to hold on to
no objection; nothing to criticize; nothing to criticise
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out
schoolchild without lunch
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation
strained lees (e.g. sake, tofu); draff
to be taken aback; to be astonished; to be dumbfounded