clear weather; cloudless weather; good weather
repeated at intervals; every other (day, week, month, ...)
to dry up; to parch; to ebb away
absorption; suction; aspiration; attraction; draw
complete victory; total victory
genuine; real; full-scale; full-blown; full-fledged; professional
to strip and leave clothes lying around
frame for drying clothes; clotheshorse
far away in the distance; in the far distance
closure (of a cinema, museum, etc.); closing down; shutting down; closed-down cinema (museum, etc.)
to take care of; to bring up under one's personal care; to kill with one's own hands; to do personally; to handle (e.g. a job); to request that someone deal with (something)
quietly; softly; seriously; solemnly; sadly
loitering on the way; wayside grass
book making (binding, publishing)
work; business; company; study
state capital; provincial capital; county town
secondhand book fair; antiquarian book market
low quality; poor quality
to bind; to file; to top with egg (e.g. donburi)
written work (esp. a bound text, as opposed to a scroll); a text written entirely in kana; graphic novel (esp. one created between the 12th and 19th centuries); notebook (for practicing kana, drawing pictures, etc.); rough draft
indiscriminate reading; unsystematic reading; desultory reading; reading at random
to one's heart's content; to one's complete satisfaction; as much as one likes; heartily; thoroughly; without restraint
to remonstrate; to admonish (someone) for; to advise (someone) not to; to warn against
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
rich person; millionaire; magnate; big spender; debauchee
student; student who performs housework in exchange for meals and lodging; houseboy (attending school or university)
distance; journey; itinerary; path (e.g. to one's goal); way; process
total; complete; all-out; general; extensive; full-scale
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
canteen; post exchange; PX
(young) hoodlum; delinquent boy; small-time yakuza; brat; little shit
to say it out loud; to yell out; to emphasize
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
braid (hair, cord. etc.); plait
general mobilization; general mobilisation
perm (hairstyle); permanent wave
difficult problem; challenge
influence (on someone); inspiration