one's circumstances; environment; situation (in life)
carefree; relaxed; comfortable; at one's ease
talking about one's misfortunes; tales of one's misfortunes
to hunt (animals); to search (for a criminal); to go looking for (flowers, etc.); to gather (mushrooms)
generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds
elegance; dandyism; sophistication; affectation; showing off; putting on an air
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery genre; detective genre
lavender; lavender (color)
discouragement; despondency; dejection; disappointment
wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising
accurate; precise; exact; appropriate; apt; right
minimum; (very) least; at least some (comfort, etc.); only (consolation, saving grace, etc.); sole
to twist; to twirl; to fiddle around with; to play with; to rack one's brains
a little less than; a little under; weakness; the weak; -lower (seismic intensity)
unconcernedly; nonchalantly; shamelessly; brazenly
out of luck; (at the) end of one's rope
seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
(one's) older sister; (one's) elder sister; girl
(arch.) eight ata (approx. 144 cm); large; long
to be better (than); to be superior; to surpass; to excel; to be excellent
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; hammy (acting); over-the-top; clumsy
body; physical system; (the) person
burying one's head in the sand (while leaving other parts of one's body exposed); exposing one's weak point while attempting to protect oneself; (lit.) hiding one's head without hiding one's bottom
deeply (stab, thrust, etc.); hard
emphatically (bite, gulp, chew, etc.)
whichever one chooses; either way
bodily; physical; corporeal; sexual; sensual; of the flesh
in swarms; in clusters; tediously; slowly
certain; one; (arch.) I; (arch.) me
space alien; alien; extraterrestrial being
whiz (e.g. projectile through air); swoosh; whoosh; whistling sound
the six historical styles of writing kanji: large seal, small seal, clerical, triangular-swept clerical, running, and cursive
else; in addition; on top of that; furthermore; further; besides
unexpectedly; surprisingly; unexpected; unanticipated; unforeseen