meek; quiet; docile; mysterious; marvelous; marvellous
busy; hectic; hurried; rapid; quick; sudden
strategy meeting; council of war
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
unique flavor (flavour); (degree of) flavouring; distinctive quality; special charm
touch; contact; contact (with people); dealings; tangency
gap; lag; difference; discrepancy; shear (e.g. shear stress)
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible
to overestimate (someone); to overrate; to think too highly of; to make too much of; to give (someone) too much credit
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
senior high school student
insect; bug; worm; roundworm; thing inside one's body believed to influence one's thoughts and feelings; (one's) unconscious; nervousness
serious; important; significant; grave; weighty
point of view; viewpoint; standpoint; perspective; angle
painful; being sorry; feeling sorry
as expected; just as one thought; as feared; sure enough
absolutely; definitely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
to make up for; to compensate for; to indemnify; to recompense; to redeem (e.g. a fault); to atone for
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow (handling, dealing with something); anyhow; one way or another
to close down a business; to shut a business
not limited to; not just ...
town; block; street; road; chō (unit of length, approx. 109.09 m); chō (unit of land area, approx. 0.99 hectares)
if that is the case; if it becomes so; when it becomes so
to be crushed; to be squashed; to go bankrupt; to go under; to be ruined (of a plan); to be cancelled; to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.)
not knowing when to give up; being a bad loser
station; office; guardroom
full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say everything; to tell all
deadlock; stalemate; standstill; hopeless position; lost game; zugzwang
truth or falsehood; genuineness; authenticity; veracity
unreliable; uncertain; indefinite; unclear
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money); indicates that the action is directed towards the speaker; indicates that the object of an action arrives at or is received by the speaker
to turn; to rotate; to go around; to circle; to make the rounds (of); to go around (several places); to go by way of
(any) particular; special; particularly noteworthy; worth mentioning
harvest; crop; fruits (of one's labors); gain; catch (fishing); bag (hunting)
stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete
to jump in; to leap in; to plunge into; to burst in; to barge in
to run aground; to strike a rock; to be stranded on a reef; to reach a deadlock; to come to a standstill; to run into difficulties
to sink; to go under; to go down (e.g. sun); to set; to feel depressed; to become subdued