recommendation; advice; suggestion; encouragement
provocative; incendiary; inflammatory; suggestive; lascivious; risqué
independence; self-reliance
often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly
flute; fife; pipe; whistle
to boil; to heat; to excite; (arch.) to melt (metal)
uneventfully; without incident; without a hitch; peacefully
a matter for the police; a brush with the law
nonprosecution; nonindictment
gold (Au); golden (color); valuable; of highest value; money; gold coin; Friday
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
very small amount; insignificant thing; negligible amount
chief seat; seat of honor; seat of honour; head of the table
simmer; bubble out; flow out
to dispose of; to sell off
sticking; clinging; with a smack (e.g. sitting down); hard; all over; thickly
to find difficult to guess; to struggle to work out; to be unable to figure out
to happen to have on hand or in stock
to rain incessantly; to downpour
volume (sound level); volume (books); volume; substantial quantity (e.g. hearty meal); any kind of adjustment knob, not necessarily for sound
fresh and youthful; lively; vibrant; vivacious; juicy (e.g. fruit)
tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem
haiku; 17-mora poem, usu. in 3 lines of 5, 7 and 5 morae
(large) compilation; culmination (of hard work)
not the time for; not the place for; far from; anything but; ... is out of the question; ... isn't the word for it
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
to bend down; to bow down; to prostrate oneself; to hide oneself
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants
drama; play; Chinese opera