to come alive; to get going; to start to move
classroom; lecture room; department (in a university); class; lessons; school (for a particular discipline)
textbook; coursebook; schoolbook
system where all students live in dormitories; residential system; boarding system (e.g. boarding school)
shabby; mean; sorry; dingy
form; method; system; formula
naturally; of course; understandably
turning round; going around; turning about; surrounding; encircling
to kick away; to kick off; to kick hard; to refuse curtly; to reject outright
haniwa; hollow unglazed terracotta figure from the Kofun period
24 hours; twenty-four hours
to cause; to induce; to bring about; to pull upright; to help up (e.g. a fallen person)
transfer student; student changing schools
praiseworthy; commendable; laudable; strange (person); weird; odd
dripping with sweat; bathed in perspiration
very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly
chattering (teeth); (frozen, worried) stiff; rigid (personality, thinking, etc.); inflexible; voracious (e.g. work, study); without slack or pause
to put oneself in (situation, environment, etc.); to surround oneself with
spring break; spring vacation
declaration; proclamation; announcement
head over heels; headlong; head first
to jump down; to jump off; to jump from; to jump out of
seriously; no kidding; joking aside; in all seriousness
thundering; purring; something large and heavy starting to roll; scattered about; common; idleness; idling about
to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued
gatekeeper; door guard; doorman; concierge; janitor
tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog; sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox