to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
base (e.g. of a triangle); low class; low in social standing; base (e.g. of support); foundation
to forget oneself; to lose control of oneself
disgusting; sickening; revolting; nauseating
memorial service held on the seventh day following a person's death
silent phone call (form of harassment)
color spraypaint; colour spraypaint
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
playing the victim; playing the victim card
scrawl; scribble; graffiti; doodle
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
belief that human nature is fundamentally good
cold-hearted; callous; unfeeling; insentient (objects); insensate; inanimate
exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit
to be smeared; to be covered
to be violated; to be corrupted; to be polluted; to be stained
to cheer; to jeer; to mock
inducing; causing; triggering; giving rise to
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
reason; cause; history; origin
-less; lacking; non-existing
seeking to improve one's health with a change of climate
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
(somebody else's) parents; both parents
Osaka-Kobe; Hanshin (company name: railway, dept. store, baseball team, etc.)
the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 (the epicenter was located on Awaji island)
sigh (of grief, disappointment, etc.); grieving; lamenting; deploring
being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)
to look up (at); to look up to; to respect; to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to depend on
to be wet; to be moist; to get dim; to become blurred; to become tear-choked
protective instinct; defensive instinct
to torment; to torture; to harass
attending physician; physician in charge; (one's) family doctor
to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to be near (a certain age)
explanation (e.g. for one's actions); excuse; justification; defense; defence
lovers' tiff; quarrel between lovers; chattering; idle talk
to deny; to contradict; to negate (esp. a sound); to drown out
symptoms; condition (of a patient)
spiritual plane; spiritual aspect; mental level
of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant
nervous disorder; neurosis