September; ninth month of the lunar calendar
return; comeback; reinstatement; carriage return; CR
last week; the week before
choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy
to fall (over, down); to collapse; to be destroyed (in a collapse); to collapse; to be confined to bed (with an illness); to come down with; to die
to guess; to sense; to presume; to sympathize with; to sympathise with
illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
forever; for good; eternally; as long as one likes; indefinitely; no matter what
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
dropping out of school; withdrawing from school; expulsion from school; dismissal; leaving school (university, etc.) after completing a course
case (e.g. receptacle, condition, event, legal action, letter style, etc.); Computer-Aided Software Engineering; CASE
academic year; school year; year in school; grade in school
to do over again; to redo; to start over; to remake; to resume; to recommence
sure; no mistaking it; for certain; without doubt
child (esp. a boy); viscount; founder of a school of thought (esp. Confucius); master; masters and philosophers (categorization of Chinese classical literature); (arch.) you; -er (i.e. man who spends all his time doing...)
to fall behind; to drop out; to drop; to fall; to spill
even if; no matter (what); if; though; although; supposing
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
ranchu; variety of goldfish
leisure; leisure time; spare time
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
8th in rank; eighth sign of the Chinese calendar
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh
natural posture (esp. in judo); natural stance; natural attitude; relaxed manner; calm manner
to subsist; to keep on living
painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
that kind of; of the sort; of the kind; such
a long time (since the last time); first in a long time
meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview
proper; respectable; decent; (arch.) entirely; (arch.) completely; (arch.) wholly
collapse; crumbling; breaking down; (radioactive) decay; disintegration
beginning; start; clue; lead; thread end
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
to stiffen; to become stiff
to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)
breathing; respiration; knack; trick; harmony; balance
to break; to fracture; to fold; to bend; to make (origami); to interrupt
stone wash basin found in Japanese gardens
whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom
bear (any mammal of family Ursidae)
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me