willingly; voluntarily; on one's own accord
precious; valuable; priceless; noble; exalted; sacred
eager; earnest; strenuous; fervent; assiduous; with utmost effort
to pin down; to immobilize; to immobilise; to control; to suppress
poppy seed; pinhead-like; small as ants
class (e.g. school); grade; rank; kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
to blurt out; to let slip; to say inadvertently; to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
stink; bad odor; bad odour; stench
general mobilization; general mobilisation
qualitative difference; disparity; gap
to crush (with one's hands); to kill a proposal; to shelve; to table (remove from consideration)
not yet known; unknown; strange
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
to lick; to lap; to taste; to experience (esp. a hardship); to look down on (someone); to make fun of
investigation; inspection; examination; tune; note; melody
uncomfortable feeling; feeling out of place; sense of discomfort; malaise; physical unease
characteristic; feature; idiosyncrasy; spot color (in printing)
concealment; suppression; hiding
doubt; question; suspicion; dubiousness
positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive
while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; content; substance
half-sibling (with a different mother)
one's own child; one's own children
ex-wife; former wife; previous wife
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
trivial; not amounting to much
to connect; to link together; to tie; to fasten; to maintain; to preserve
to (make something) quiver; to shake; to tremble; to vibrate
wife; (arch.) my dear; (arch.) dear; garnish (esp. one served with sashimi); embellishment
to lose one's energy; to be cowardly
to slip into; to crawl into (under); to conceal oneself (under); to sneak into; to infiltrate
refreshing (e.g. feeling, scene, wind, morning air); brisk; bracing; fresh; refreshed
even; indicates something unexpected occurs
if you think about it; come to think of it