gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
in high spirits; excited; energetic
as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible
indescribable; having no way to express
dainty; delicate; slender; fragile (e.g. furniture); delicate; frail
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
sweet (e.g. young girls, flowers blooming); touchingly lovely; cute; pitiful; pitiable
ruffled (hair, brush bristles, etc.); unkempt; dishevelled; idling away time; dawdling; dilly-dallying
to arrange one's hair; to tidy up one's hair
to ask; to enquire; to inquire; to search; to look for; to look into
does not seem; unlikely; improbable
anxiety; uneasiness; worry; apprehension; fear; insecurity
with a pitter-patter; choked up (with emotion); heart-wringing; momentary tightening of one's chest caused by powerful feelings (e.g. parting with a loved one)
every person; every mouth; every entrance
to say to each other; to exchange (jokes, comments, etc.); to quarrel; to dispute
to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death
(distinction of) sex; gender
stuffed specimen; taxidermy mount; stuffing; mounting
preservation; conservation; storage; save (to storage)
hoge (placeholder name for a variable, similar to foobar)
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
heart; mind; bottom of one's heart; core (of one's character); centre; center; heart (organ)
(young and) innocent; naive; pure; fresh; artless; unsophisticated
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
acrobatic barrel-rolling (performed using the feet while lying on the back); handing something around (within a fixed group of people in a pre-arranged order); handing off a problem to someone else (in order to evade responsibility)
final; eventual; ultimate
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife
(verbal) abuse; denunciation; disparagement; vilification; scathing criticism
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
timidly; nervously; hesitantly; trembling (with fear); fearfully; anxiously
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
to go by; to go past; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to go indoors; to go into a room; to penetrate
to appear ...; to look like ...; to seem ...; to have a trace of; to be tinged with
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
senior (at school, work, etc.); superior; elder; older person; predecessor