sudden; abrupt; unexpected; unforeseen
worst; poor and boring; uncool
predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
to ill-treat; to bully; to torment; to be tough on (e.g. one's body); to treat harshly
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
at that time; in those days; at that moment; then
soccer club (at a school); football club
activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service; to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role
department (in an organization); division; club; part; component; category
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
cram school; private tutoring school; juku
to go to and from (a place); to go back and forth between; to go to (school, work, etc.); to attend; to circulate (e.g. blood, electricity); to be communicated (e.g. thought)
have no relation to; have no luck with; not be fated to
this or that person; anybody; many people
to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
several people; a few people
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
spare time; free time; time (e.g. time it takes to do something); time off; day off; quitting (one's job); firing someone
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
lesson; class work; teaching; instruction
group; bunch; crowd; group
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
among (other things); especially; particularly; inter alia; above all (else)
least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least
class; heading; group; category
for example; for instance; e.g.
examination; exam; test; trial; experiment; test
club activities; extracurricular activities
on the way; en route; in the middle of; midway; halfway
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
nature; natural; spontaneous; naturally; spontaneously
bag; sack; skin of an orange (and other like fruits); dead end; plot of land surrounded by water
to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
hum (of a TV, radio, etc.)
bulky; massive; thick; heavy
largish; biggish; a little bit larger
stifled laugh; chuckling; snickering