Famicom; Family Computer (abbr); Nintendo Entertainment System; NES
soft; software; soft hat; felt hat; soft serve ice cream; softball
to compete; to bid; to sell at auction
better; preferable; more; increase; (arch.) increase; (arch.) growth
to talk to oneself; to mutter
shopping district; shopping street; downtown
dangling; swaying; (walking) leisurely; aimlessly; idly; lazily
materials; ingredients; material (for a novel, experiment, etc.); subject matter; grounds (for a decision, judgement, etc.); basis
housewife; mistress (of the house); homemaker
to be crowded with people; to be bustling with; to prosper; to flourish; to do thriving business
gap; opening; spare moment; interval; unguarded moment; carelessness
to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends
high-spirited; cheerful; assertive; vigorous
shout (of encouragement, etc.); yell (used to time or encourage activity, e.g. "Heave ho!")
to fly about; to flutter about; to flit about; to fly past each other
to stroke; to caress; to brush gently; to comb (hair); to smooth down
leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row
buying and eating sweets (esp. of children); between-meal snacking
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
one's student (esp. a former one); one's pupil; one's disciple
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
to turn up; to roll up (e.g. sleeves); to do over and over again; to do relentlessly; to stage a comeback (against) (in mahjong, horse racing, etc.); to come from behind
further; above (that); greater (than that); any more
consideration; guess; conjecture; judgement
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
study; diligence; working hard; experience; knowledge; discount
novel; story; (work of) fiction
excluding; except (for); apart from; outside (a boundary, scope, etc.)
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
bright; intelligent; clever; smart
cannot be undone; can't be recovered from
to be taken for granted; to be generally accepted; to be the established wisdom; to be the (social) convention; to be the customary thing to do
bright person; talented student; prodigy
pretending to respect (someone) while in fact staying distant; keeping at arm's length; avoiding (something unpleasant); shying away from; giving (the batter) an "intentional walk"
ordinary; average; common; normal; like the average person; like most people
such (about the actions of the listener, or about ideas expressed or understood by the listener); like that; that sort of
ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
to support; to maintain; to bring up; to raise; to adopt (a child); to cultivate (a habit, a quality, etc.)
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent