primary school; elementary school; grade school
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
supporting role (actor); minor role
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
terrific; staggering; tremendous; frightful; ghastly; horrific
women's language; word used by women
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
to stand up; to put up; to thrust into; to bury into; to make (a noise); to start (a rumour); to make
pot; volcanic crater; (one's) buttocks; male homosexual; effeminate man
changing (job, career, lifestyle, social position, beliefs, etc.)
highlighter; highlighter pen
mark; sign; symbol; emblem; badge; crest
situation; (present) state of affairs; circumstances
grasp; catch; understanding
to have a reason; to have an excuse
honorific/polite/humble prefix
thought; consideration; thinking
cannot help (doing, etc.); cannot resist; must not ...; should not ...; must ...; have to ...
indicates two contrasting actions; (arch.) indicates possessive (often found in place names and compound words)
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
young lady of noble birth; princess (esp. in Western contexts, tales, etc.); girl; small; cute; (arch.) prostitute
to permit; to allow; to forgive; to pardon; to exempt (someone) from; to remit; to acknowledge
to pierce; to stab; to sting; to bite; to sew; to stitch; to pole (a boat)
to give up (a plan or idea); to desist from (doing)
pretty; charming; lovely; adorable
please; somehow or other; one way or another
to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush
memory; sense; experience
chance; stroke of luck; (curious) turn of events
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
to be called ...; to be referred to as ...
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error (e.g. in calculation); to confuse; to mistake something for something else
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
small; fine; minute; minor; trivial; sensitive
late at night; at a late hour
to use abusive language; to curse; to call someone names
guidance; leadership; instruction; shido (disciplinary action for a minor infringement of the rules of judo)
perfect; complete; flawless