pinky swear; pinky promise; hooking each other's little fingers to confirm a promise
valid; effective; yuko (judo)
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
to be seething (with anger); to be frenzied; to be menacing; to be murderous
interference; intervention; meddling
strict; close; precise; scrupulous
foolish; idiotic; stupid; ridiculous; absurd
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
contribution (furthering a goal or cause); services (to a cause)
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
surfacing; rising to the surface; emerging; leaping into prominence; rising (of rank)
eighteenth day of the month; eighteen days
expressing one's feelings; communicating one's intention; declaration of intent
absolutely; positively; decidedly
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
closing; closure; shutdown; lockout
to go back to the start; to reset; to restore; to return to the point (of a discussion); to return something (that has been moved) to previous place; to reconstitute
in brief; to put it succinctly
faint breath; dying whisper; at death's door
change; alteration; modification
difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different
(one's) superior; (one's) boss; the higher-ups
to grow up; to become an adult
to declare; to speak out; to warn; to spit out (words)
laying one's head in someone's lap; using someone's lap for a pillow
to wake up; to rouse out of bed; to knock on the door and wake someone
vomit; spew; puke; confessing
exclusive; attached to; specialist
vocation; lifework; sacred task (esp. the emperor's rule over the nation); prostitute of the second-highest class (Edo period)
to be tied together; to be connected to; to lead to; to be related to; to be related (by blood)
component; factor; item (e.g. in list); element (e.g. in array); member (e.g. data structure)
naturally; in due course; by itself; of its own accord