handbook; manual; compendium
variety show (e.g. on TV)
air conditioning; air cooling
device; equipment; machinery; apparatus
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
fresh water (i.e. not salt water)
pearl; Perl; purl (knitting stitch)
to throw away as useless; to scrap; to make null and void; to renege; to annul
gate (for entry, boarding, etc.); gate; logic element
pending question; unresolved problem
big quarrel; huge fight; big row
with an interesting history (story); with a shady history; with circumstances that are difficult to explain
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
comfortably warm; steaming hot (food); piping hot; glowing (with warmth)
to save up; to stockpile; to stash away; to hoard; to amass; to salt away
to smile back (at a person); to answer someone's smile
tourist resort; holiday resort
place that is cool in the summer; place one goes to escape the heat of summer; summer retreat
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
riches; wealth; resources; lottery
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
Japan's best; number one in Japan
threat; menace; coercion; terrorism
to pluck off (esp. by twisting); to pick; to break off; to wrest (away from); to wrench free; to snatch (away)
marriage; marriage tie; love knot
irregular conjugation of the verb "kuru"
plain form (of a Japanese verb or adjective); dictionary form; predicative form
attributive form (of a Japanese verb or adjective)
to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that
to hit (a person); to strike; to beat; to deliver (a speech); to give (an address)