sluggish; languid; listless; bothersome; tiresome; pain-in-the-ass
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
to settle (a problem); to put an end to (a dispute); to be disposed of; to be settled; to come to an end
quite; utterly; really; completely
to get tired out; to be exhausted
to pamper; to make a fuss of; to spoil; to fawn over
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
in fact; as a matter of fact; actually; in reality; to tell the truth
why; oh; no!; quit it!; stop!
peculiarity; uniqueness; characteristic
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
schoolgirl; female student
incompatible; (going together) like oil and water
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
far away; distant place; long ago; far back; by far
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
near the mark; pretty close; not a bad guess
to dress oneself up; to deck oneself out
Gothic (style); Gothic (typeface)
clothing; costume; outfit; garment; dress
tartan (i.e. plaid pattern or fabric)
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
narrow; thin (sized); slender
hard; tough; hardware; hard disk
sporty (esp. garments, accessories, etc.)
to knead well; to polish; to refine
to have a cramp; to twitch; to stiffen (of a face, expression); to freeze; to shrink (of skin, due to a scar); to tauten
underwater; behind closed doors; behind the scenes; below the surface