national language; Japanese language (often as a school subject in Japan); native Japanese words (as opposed to loanwords)
greeting; greetings; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; revenge
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
memory; ability to remember
after that; afterwards; thereafter
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
anyhow; anyway; somehow or other; apart from ...; setting ... aside
readiness; preparedness; resolution; resignation
to spread; to be propagated
start; beginning; first step; clue
to make a decision; to draw a conclusion; to give a judgement; to hand down a verdict; to let go down; to lower; to do oneself
to refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
to be inclined to do; to be willing to do
hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing
scrubbing hard; scrubbing clean
soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
so; like this; in this way
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
anxiously; with anxious looks; with anxiety
(on) one's own; (by) oneself
life and death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death
narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining
to lock up; to shut up; to imprison
to bring calamity upon oneself; to invite disaster; to court disaster
to give one's life; to lay down one's life
to check; to hold back; to keep at bay; to stop; to prevent; to stem
stillness; silence; hush; calm; serenity
distinctly (standing out); clearly; in sharp relief; boldly
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
counter for large animals (e.g. head of cattle); counter for insects in a collection; counter for helmets, masks, etc.
power of recovery; ability to recuperate; resilience
on the occasion of; at the time of
to soothe; to calm; to pacify
to take the form (of); to assume a shape
suggestion; proposition; proposal; submission (of a bill); motion; proposal