clear; obvious; evident; bright; light
one's true feelings and one's official stance (which may be at odds); one's real motive and one's stated reason
using freely; making full use of; having a good command of; working (someone) hard; driving (someone) on
circumstances; condition; to arrange; to manage; to lend money; to raise money
very much; very many; more and more
forced laugh; forced smile
to float; to set afloat; to show on one's face (smile, sadness, etc.); to recall; to call to mind
misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess
to become angry or sullen; to take offense; to be miffed; to come unstuck from; to peel off; to come off
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
full of confidence; brimming with (self-)confidence; having great faith in oneself
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
to remind (someone of something); to call attention to; to make sure of; to emphasize; to emphasise
one sen; one-hundredth of a yen; small amount of money
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
leisurely; slow; deliberate; easygoing
punctuation; pause; juncture; end; (place to) stop
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
antics; buffoonery; clowning; clown; jester
show; exhibition; spectacle
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
to obey (an order, law, etc.); to abide by (a rule, custom, etc.); to follow (a person); to accompany; to go alongside (e.g. a river); to follow (e.g. a sign)
class; heading; group; category
to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)
to hide; to keep to oneself
one's own strength or effort; (by) oneself
to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind
comfort; consolation; diversion
to appease; to suppress; to calm
reward; recompense; tip; conveyance charge; packhorse charge
to clear away; to remove; to demolish
open; frank; liberal; open-minded
to push into; to cram into; to stuff into; to break in; to burgle; to burglarize
lazy; idle; indolent; slothful
painstaking; careful; meticulous; scrupulous; detailed; elaborate
dried fish (or shellfish, etc.)