cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to underestimate; to make light of
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
to set aside; to keep in reserve; to hold on to
then; and (then); in that case; if so
to imitate; to copy; to enter someone as a candidate; to press (e.g. a weapon against someone's back); to compare; to liken
to strangle; to constrict
rather than; more ... than ...
to remove; to take away; to clear away; to tear down; to pull down; to demolish
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
breath; breathing; concord; harmony; steam (coming off hot food, tea, etc.); (water) vapor
fragment; scrap; cut end; cut-off piece; chip; odds and ends
abhorrent; abominable; detestable; ominous; inauspicious; unlucky
true character; real nature
to open (one's eyes) wide
strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious
to scream; to whine; to grumble; to complain
to stab; to stick; to pierce; to thrust
the front; honest; upright; decent
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
worn-out; ragged; crumbling; dry and crumbly; falling (in drops or clumps); scattering
to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)
to stir; to churn; to rummage around; to throw into confusion; to throw into chaos
many times over; often; repeatedly; time after time
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to whine; to sing; to chirp
sound; noise; (speech) sound; Chinese-derived reading of a kanji
to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become indistinct; to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.); to be corrupted
dusk; twilight; twilight years; melancholia; melancholic nostalgia
single; solo; solitary; just one; only one
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
feeling of solidity; three-dimensionality; drawing highlights
vivid (memory, description, etc.); fresh; graphic; fresh (blood, scar, etc.); still new; recent
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)
to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience
sweat; perspiration; moisture; condensation; gulp; oops