to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
openly; squarely; directly; to a person's face
to handle well; to handle deftly; to deal with; to manage; to prepare (meat or fish) for cooking; to dress (meat, etc.)
sympathy; empathy; response
reading; reading (of a kanji, esp. kun reading); reading (e.g. of a situation); insight
living thing; living creature; animal; life
to catch; to capture; to grasp (e.g. meaning); to perceive; to captivate; to move (one's heart)
standard; basis; criterion; norm; reference; datum
elucidation; explication; explaining; unravelling; clarification; understanding
thought; consideration; thinking
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you
chair; stool; post; office; position
inorganic matter; mineral matter; cold; inhuman; robotic
discomfort; inconvenience; poverty; want; inability; disability
to cram; to stuff; to jam; to squeeze; to compress; to pack
halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
a little over; a little more than; powerhouse; one of the biggest; upper (seismic intensity)
coexistence; living together
bustling; busy; crowded; lively (party, voices, etc.); loud; noisy
locked up feeling; cooped up feeling; feeling of entrapment; feeling of hopelessness; being in a bind
sparse; thin; scattered; straggling; sporadic
to drift; to float; to waft (e.g. a scent); to hang in the air; to be in the air (e.g. a feeling or mood); to wander; to walk around aimlessly
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
time; hour; period; class
to pass (time); to spend; to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); (arch.) to take care of; (arch.) to support
free range breeding; pasturing; grazing; letting run free (dog, child, etc.)
sometimes; occasionally; at times; seasonal; of the season; appropriate (for the season or occasion)
wow!; oh!; yeah!; alright!; waah!; boohoo!
it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it
movement; move; motion; trend; development; change
incomprehensible; mysterious; inexplicable; inscrutable; enigmatic; baffling
shit video game; embarrassingly bad video game
absolutely; positively; decidedly
domination; rule; direction; management; control (e.g. over one's emotions); determining (e.g. one's fate)