that year; same year; same age
buying; shopping; buyer; purchase
one's favourite party trick (favorite); one's specialty; No. 18; eighteenth; repertoire of 18 kabuki plays
idle gossip; foolish talk; yarn
business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed
with a "plop" (of tears, drop of water, etc.)
platform; home; home base; home plate
purse snatching; handbag snatching; purse snatcher; handbag snatcher
to do something in readiness for; to get something (needful) done
to bungle; to make things awkward
surgery; operation; procedure; skill with one's hands; sleight of hand
to catch sight of; to come into view; to happen to see
forging; tempering; drilling; training; disciplining
small build; small stature; petite; small pattern
disaster; tragedy; tragic incident; horrible accident
attraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation); affinity; gravitational pull; attractiveness; magnetism
ordinary person; average person; mediocre person
throw or throwing technique (sumo, judo)
not bad; not half bad; pretty good
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
one's own style; self-taught manner
to be playful; to gambol; to be amused (with something); to play; to sport; to frolic
to say; to spatter; to prate; to prattle; to babble
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
(a) dose; (a) puff; (a) smoke; lull; short rest
motorcycle; motorbike; bicycle
delinquent (youth); delinquency; Yankee
disposition; temperament; temper; nature
close (e.g. in terms of relationship); intimate
swallowtail butterfly (esp. the citrus swallowtail butterfly, Papilio xuthus)
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
metal rod; metal bar; iron rod; iron club; iron staff with rings on top (traditionally used by night watchmen)