penance; austerities; mortification; asceticism
interview (e.g. for a job)
home visitation (esp. a teacher visiting a student's home); home visit; house call
placing in a list (top ten, popularity, sales, etc.)
previous day; day before; eve; prior day; preceding day
personal statement; verbal or informal, unsubstantiated assertion
different opinion; objection
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
crash; smash; bang; sound of a large, heavy object falling
infatuation; adoration; blind love; doting (on a child)
second marriage; remarriage
meek; quiet; docile; mysterious; marvelous; marvellous
to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of
slim; slender; lithe; smoothly; without resistance; without trouble
to accept; to receive; to agree
negative (e.g. thinking); negative; negative (electrical polarity)
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
awkward (movements, speech, etc.); jerky; stiff; strained (relations); sour
close; intimate; on good terms
hospitalization; hospitalisation
(one) matter; (one) item; (one) case
to feel inferior; to feel small
family breakdown; family disintegration; collapse of one's family
to be in the news; to be talked about; to become a popular topic of conversation; to become the talk of the town; to become topical
another's parent; another's parents
(physical) growth; development
bust (measurement); breasts; bosom; bust (sculpture); half-length portrait
prioritized; focused; concentrated; predominant
full breasts; ample breasts; breast enlargement
gymnastics; physical exercises; artistic gymnastics; gymnastics competition; physical education (class); PE
to take in; to bring in; to capture (e.g. image); to import; to win over; to please
eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo
to comb (out); to card; to untangle (hair)
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
disposition; temperament; nature; mentality; spirit; character
stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company
brand; make; description; trading name of stocks and securities
to be profitable; to yield a profit