(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
articles; supplies; parts
bargain sale; selling cheaply; giving out freely
corner; bend; segment (within a radio or TV program); session; area; department
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
careful; elaborate; scrupulous
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
prickling; stinging; tingling
had better ...; had better not ...
muscles and bones; body build; physique; cartilage
sewing; needlework; embroidery
one's own work; making by oneself
smooth; shiny; slippery; greasy; slurping (noodles)
offstage; backstage; behind the scenes
after a short time; in a short while; a short time later
at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money
fierce (fight, competition, etc.); severe; hot; hard; bitter; keen
to carry to extremes; to go to the end of something; to investigate thoroughly; to master
counter for books; volume
to take notice (of); to pay attention (to)
journal; magazine; periodical
paste; glue; clothing starch
filling (up) a hole; filling in (for a gap, vacancy, etc.); stopgap; making up (for a loss, damage, etc.); covering (a deficit); cloze deletion (test format)
blocking (e.g. the way); obstructing; block (lump of something (usu. square), area of town, etc.); block; physical record (e.g. on magnetic tape); concrete block; blocking (from view, esp. of websites, on social media, etc.)
to combine; to join together; to join up; to dovetail together
to move (house); to transfer (department); to change the target of interest or concern; to elapse (passage of time); to be permeated by a colour or scent; to be infected
bursting at the seams; bulging
to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)
to stretch; to extend; to straighten out; to be flattened; to spread (of paint, cream, etc.); to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
cliff; precipice; precipice; brink of a dangerous situation
just as (each) one likes; as (each) one pleases; as (each) one prefers; (each) in one's own way
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
professor; teaching; instruction
tea drinking; teahouse; tearoom; coffee lounge
to be submerged; to be soaked; to be pickled; to be well seasoned; to be totally immersed (in a condition, e.g. laziness)