tasting (food or drink) for poison; checking the taste (of a dish); seeing how something tastes
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
to scatter; to disseminate (e.g. a rumor); to spread (e.g. germs); to distribute widely (e.g. leaflets); to hand out freely; to spend recklessly
every year; yearly; annually
detergent; cleanser; cleaning agent; washing material
to slouch; to stoop; to bend forward; to lean forward
sink (e.g. in a kitchen); cruising (e.g. taxi); strolling (entertainer, musician, etc.); washing area (in a Japanese-style bath); back-washing service (in a public bath); floating (something on water)
intracerebral; inside the brain; (occurring) in the mind; mental (e.g. image); imaginary
restoration to life; coming to life again; reformation; rehabilitation; recycling; reclamation; playback
soft; tender; gentle; mild; light (topic, book, etc.); informal
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
roundness; rotundity; mellowness; maturity
feel (of a material); texture
although at this late hour; now, although it is too late; afresh; anew; again
(one's) figure; build; physique; style
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
shaking like a jelly; jellylike
leaving (a decision, job, etc.) to someone else; entrusting; leaving the choice of a meal to the chef; omakase
mumbling; chewing one's words; chewing (food); squirming; wriggling
things to be washed; (dirty) dishes; laundry; washing
tension; strain; tensions (between countries, groups, etc.); tonus; muscle tone
to crush to death; to press to death; to squeeze to death; to suppress (a laugh, one's anger, etc.); to stifle; to subdue (one's voice)
stoppage; coming to a stop; ceasing (movement, activity, etc.); suspension (of operations); suspension (of payment, a licence, etc.); (temporary) prohibition
smell; scent; aura; whiff; faint, mist-like pattern along the temper line of a Japanese sword
becoming clear; coming to light; being ascertained; being identified; being confirmed
to reach back into one's memory; to search one's mind; to recall
nakedness; nudity; bareness; nakedness; being penniless; concealing nothing
center; centre; middle; -centered; -centred; -focused
sound of something making firm contact with a flat surface
wearing one's hair in braids
to throw off (clothes); to cast off; to fling off; to cast off (old ideas, habits, etc.); to discard
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
bad; wrong; must not (do, be); should not; useless; no good; hopeless
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
poor excuse (of a); nearly non-existent; barely sufficient; token (effort, etc.); symbolic
to smell sweet; to be fragrant