hair-raising; bloodcurdling; horrible; shocking; gruesome
intimidating air; sense of intimidation
deputy head teacher; vice principal
to take (be in) charge of
intimidation; threat; bluster
opening (of a bottle); broaching; beginning; opening; commencement (e.g. of sales)
to work (someone) hard; to push (someone) around
one's superior's anger; imperial wrath
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
normalcy; normality; normal
training (animals); breaking (animals)
to recognize by sound (recognise); to identify by sound; to understand; to be reasonable
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
hedgehog (any mammal of family Erinaceidae)
jokingly; in the form of a joke
clear insight; resignation (to one's fate); acceptance
to turn up; to make an appearance; to put in an appearance; to drop by
annual (plant); first-year student
glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination
with a rustling sound; rippling (of a stream, etc.); murmuring; slurping down (ochazuke); quickly and easily (e.g. write a letter); with ease
generally; mainly; nearly all; almost all; gist; summary; staying within bounds
blue; azure; green; green light (traffic); black (horse coat color); blue 5-point card; immature
(bearing a) close resemblance; vivid reminder (e.g. of the past); dim; faint; vague
feeling of transparency; sense of translucence
light (e.g. aircraft, truck); light motor vehicle (up to 660cc and 64bhp); kei car
to rub; to scrub; to scrape
precious stone (esp. jade); egg (sometimes esp. as a sushi topping); stock or security being traded; product being bought or sold; position (in finance, the amount of a security either owned or owed by an investor or dealer); geisha; time charge for a geisha
in drops; dripping; gently (sloping); sluggishly; endlessly; leisurely
ball of dried, ground, fermented dyer's knotweed leaves
to write down; to record; to register
individual; distinctive; unique; characteristic; personal; idiosyncratic
to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
soft (and fluffy) (e.g. bed, bread, baked potato); (arch.) absent-mindedly
speck; dot; point; only a little; particle; only one