congratulation; congratulations; celebration; congratulatory gift; present
red rice (beans and mochi) for auspicious occasions
previous engagement; prior contract
trembling (with fear, cold, etc.); shaking; chattering (of teeth); coming loose; wobbling
foxtail millet (Setaria italica); Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
thin; skinny; delicate; fragile; feeble
sullenly; taciturnly; morosely; taciturn person; uncommunicative person
scramble intersection; pedestrian scramble; X-crossing; diagonal crossing; intersection allowing pedestrians to cross simultaneously in any direction
to discharge (e.g. effluent)
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
immediately; right away; at once; easily; readily
illumination; decorative lighting
(wrestling) ring; forum (e.g. for discussion); sandbag; gabion
Comic Market (semiannual self-published comic book convention); comiket; comic book market; comicbook market
beautiful man and woman; handsome couple
probability; likelihood; chances
to be preeminent; to be outstanding
crude; rough; plain; humble; shabby
eve (esp. Christmas Eve); the night before
deadline; closing; cofferdam; closed (door, window, etc.)
heartbroken thoughts; heartrending grief; overwhelming sorrow
to sever; to cut off; to suppress; to eradicate; to abstain (from); to give up
sponsorship (i.e. conducting under one's auspices); promotion; organizing; organising; hosting; staging
patronizing; expecting gratitude in return; acting like one is doing someone a favor; condescending
unless one ...; if one does not ...
average (normal, ordinary) year; every year; annually
notebook; memo pad; certificate; identification card
to collect; to put (it all) together; to summarize; to aggregate; to bring to a conclusion; to finalize
plot (of a story); plotting (a graph)
to come and go; to go back and forth
prologue; prolog; Prolog (Programming in Logic)
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words
reputation; respectability