not a chance; you wish!; that's not going to happen; that won't work
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
to fail to hear something; to miss; to act as if one didn't hear something; to let a remark slide
right on the heels of yesterday, then today ...; soon after something, and yet now ...
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
habit; (social) custom; practice; convention
insistent; obstinate; persistent; too rich (taste, etc.); fatty; heavy
in drops; dripping; gently (sloping); sluggishly; endlessly; leisurely
sounding out; measuring the depths (of a river)
kidnapper; kidnaper; abductor
phone trace; detecting the source of a telephone call
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
opposite side; opposition
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
to go round and cut in; to take a roundabout path
to rub out; to clean off; to clear away; to efface; to erase
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
index finger; forefinger; second toe
awfully; frightfully; desperately; violently; unduly; extremely
senior high school student
transmission (e.g. news, chemical signals, electricity); communication; delivery; conveyance; transfer; relay
social networking service; SNS
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
old-fashioned; ancient-looking; time-worn
these guys; these fellows
to separate (by distance, time, etc.); to isolate; to interpose; to have between; to alienate; to estrange
to get angry; to lose one's temper
one's own convenience; one's way; surroundings; environment; convenience; ease of use; financial circumstances
smirkingly; broadly (grinning)
complicity (in a crime); collusion
to go out and away; to leave
to chase; to run after; to pursue
to play a role; to serve a function; to play a part
reinforcement (e.g. of troops)
in the process of being repaired; during repairs
to memorize; to memorise; to commit to memory; to learn by heart; to bear in mind; to remember
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post