missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
absolutely normal; perfectly commonplace; taken for granted
on the other hand; at the same time
embarrassed; feeling ashamed; feeling awkward
lost child; lost person; stray child; missing child
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
to tag along; to follow; to tail; to leave tracks; to leave footprints
counter for buildings (esp. houses); suffix for a pen name, stage name, etc.
eyewitness report; eyewitness information
empty air; sky; shunyata (the lack of an immutable intrinsic nature within any phenomenon); emptiness; air force; fruitlessness; meaninglessness
bento; Japanese box lunch
full stomach; bellyful; (eat) heartily; to one's heart's content
cancellation; withdrawal; asking to be excused; begging off; not taking
to be embarrassed for a reply
miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key point; main point; weakling
polished rice; (uncooked) white rice
roots; origin; one's roots; ancestry
Age of Discovery; Age of Exploration
transmission; propagation; spread; circulation; diffusion; dissemination
to miss (doing); to fail (to do); to do without
place of origin (of a plant or animal species, etc.); natural habitat; original home; place of origin (of manufactured goods)
American continent; the Americas
introduction (from abroad); transmission (through successive generations); being handed down (from generation to generation); being passed down
holiness; sacredness; sanctity; dignity
cattle (Bos taurus); cow; beef; Chinese "Ox" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
British person; Briton; English person; Englishman; Englishwoman
thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article
(pork) cutlet curry; tonkatsu curry
easy-peasy; easy; simple; pleasant; comfortable; comfy
to make (someone) understand (a fault, mistake, etc.); to reason with; to advise; to try to persuade; to exhort; to admonish
swallowing without chewing; swallowing (e.g. a story); accepting without questioning
cowardly; spineless; weak-willed; fainthearted
to tag along; to follow; to tail; to shadow
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of
break in contact; not hearing from; having no communication with
pedestrian crossing; crosswalk
to defeat (someone) in an argument; to argue (someone) down; to confute (someone); to refute (someone)
low-grade; low-class; low-quality; vulgar; cheap