bright; intelligent; clever; smart
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
to turn one's face; to turn around; to look over one's shoulder
consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude
clumsy; awkward; tactless; awkward (e.g. socially); (arch.) mean; (arch.) cowardly
elder sister; effeminate man
crowd of people; great number of people; in great numbers
guest; visitor; customer; client; counter for containers used to entertain guests
recruitment; invitation; raising (funds, donations, etc.); collection; flotation (of shares, loans, etc.)
appearance; air; condition; state; form
elegant; refined; polished; high-quality goods; first-class article
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am; older girl
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
shyness; fear of strangers; stranger anxiety
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly
every one (of them); (one and) all; without exception; to a man; to the last person
ignoring a text message by leaving it unopened and marked as "unread" (in online chatting)
to throw out one's chest; to be puffed up with pride
please; somehow or other; one way or another
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence
to challenge to (a fight, game, etc.); to throw down the gauntlet; to tackle (e.g. a problem); to attempt; to pressure (someone) for sex; to make advances to
to come to nothing; to be in vain; to lead nowhere
to be silent; to say nothing
that day; the very same day
although I say; although one might say; although called
thundering; purring; something large and heavy starting to roll; scattered about; common; idleness; idling about
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
smoothly; swimmingly; forthrightly; without hesitation
screen (of a TV, computer, etc.); image (on a screen); picture; surface of a painting (picture, drawing, etc.)
with a slap; with a pop; without batting an eyelid; generously; cutesy suffix applied to names
to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to input (data)
short sentence; short piece of writing (e.g. passage, article, composition)
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
stamp; sticker (in messaging apps); (large) emoji
to send (something unsolicited); to send without the receiver's request
to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head
intimate friend; close friend; bosom buddy; chum