entry qualifications; joining qualifications
intensiveness; collecting; summarizing; putting together
musical instrument; music; accompaniment instruments used in kabuki (excluding the shamisen)
after use; after occurring
official in charge; person in charge
to perform in tune with each other; to get along well; to be in perfect harmony; to make a perfect pair (team, etc.)
tall, lanky person; bean pole; tall and thin; tall and lanky
carrying on one's back (e.g. baby); piggyback ride
ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land
to break the tape (at the finishing line); to breast the tape
to issue a manifesto; to appeal
skipping rope; jump rope; skipping; rope-jumping
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spatter; to scatter; to hurry
to run into (room, building, etc.); to go for long training runs
to assemble everything together; to do something as a group
to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach
having very little difference between one another; being much of a muchness; being more or less the same; pointless competition (between two equally unimpressive parties); pissing contest
first class; first rank; one degree; one level; most; best
school badge; school emblem; school insignia
carved seal; engraved stamp; to engrave (a seal); to carve; to make an impression (with a seal)
point spread; point difference
three-digit number; hundreds column
barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
stochastic; probabilistic
title; subject; problem (on a test); question; counter for questions (on a test)
bitter orange (Citrus aurantium); sour orange; Seville orange; orange (color, colour)
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
drinking fountain; water fountain; bubbler; (animal) watering hole; water hole
game in which a dangling piece of bread is grabbed in the mouth and raced to the finish line (in school sports festivals)
to suspend from; to be suspended (from)
ordinary; sensible; commonplace
poisonous snake; poisonous serpent
poisonous spider; venomous spider; wolf spider
100,000,000; one hundred million
to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit
one's face turning pale (ashen); the color being drained from one's face
shaved head; person with a shaved head; skinhead; shaved-headed member of a subculture often associated with Neo-nazism