express home delivery service; express home delivery parcel (box, etc.)
makings (of); aptitude; talent; nature; character; temperament
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps; stet (proofreading)
impossible to do (although wants to)
head house; main family; founder (of a certain school, style, etc.); originator; birthplace
if only there were ...; if (it) actually existed; there's not even ...; completely lacking ...
to push aside; to push one's way through
meticulous; careful; discreet; scrupulous; prudent
elder sister; effeminate man
sister-in-law (spouse's older sister or older brother's wife); older stepsister; older adopted sister; non-blood-related older sister
in that way; like that; that way
loose; immoral; dissolute; slovenly; untidy; messy
to sniff around; to snoop around; to nose about
false; pseudo-; quasi-; would-be; sham; pretended
Saint; St.; S.; sacred; holy; pure
towel rack; towel rail; towel bar; towel ring
drought; long spell of dry weather
stand; base; platform; holder; rest
Kōjien (Japanese dictionary published by Iwanami Shoten)
to sound shrill (of a voice); to sound high-pitched and excited; to get excited; to become restless; to be thrown too high; to come in high
to memorize; to memorise; to recite from memory
to be equal; to ostentatiously display that one is equal (to)
senior; veteran; old-timer
topic of discussion; agenda
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech
short sentence; short piece of writing (e.g. passage, article, composition)
kaya (Torreya nucifera); Japanese nutmeg tree
pat; tap; pop; crack; cutesy suffix applied to names
speech balloon (in a comic strip); speech bubble; blowoff; effusion; blowing (of a seasonal or climatic wind)
measure; measuring tape; measuring
to insert; to put between; to tuck (into)