person inside a cartoon body suit; voice actor; insider
bad person; villain; scoundrel; wrongdoer; wicked person
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking
often; frequently; lightly (of a movement); easily; simply
to look up (at); to look up to; to respect; to ask for (e.g. guidance); to seek; to depend on
to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
string tied across the open chest of a haori
to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain
day after tomorrow; wrong (e.g. direction)
to investigate; to examine
definitely; absolutely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness
to walk about; to walk around; to walk to and fro; to pace around; to wander
to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.
that kind of; that way; that move; that trick; that game
outline; main points; generally; on the whole; general; rough
response; reply; answer; defence; defense
agreement; coincidence; correspondence; conformity
pretending not to know; pretending not to recognize someone (recognise); feigning ignorance; playing innocent
tone (of voice); parlance; style; intonation; accent
to strengthen; to emphasize; to emphasise
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
drop (e.g. of water); drip
echo; reverberation; sound (esp. the distinctive sound of an object or activity, e.g. rain, gun, gallop, drum); noise; quality of a sound (e.g. a fine phrase, clear voice, resonant bell); feeling of a sound
isolated; standing alone; falling in drops (e.g. rain); saying a single word; muttering just a few words
casual; unconcerned; nonchalant
smoothly; easily; readily
poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)
danger; Chinese "rooftop" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
strenuous exertion; spurt; splurge
futures; credit (buying); stretching; total (preceding counter, unit, etc.); aggregate
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
each time; every time; whenever (something happens); on the occasion of
very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly
to pity; to sympathize with; to sympathise with; to tend to (e.g. an injury); to care for; to nurse
timidly; nervously; hesitantly; trembling (with fear)
reckless; daredevil; frantic; foolhardy
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
Ginza (shopping district in Tokyo); (Edo period) silver mint