to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth; to be able to eat
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
chewing; mastication; digestion (e.g. of words); assimilation; comprehension
very loose; slowly; leisurely
sympathy; empathy; response
hair style; coiffure; hairdo
favorite; favourite; pet (e.g. teacher's pet); bookmark (in web browser)
receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death
nothing; naught; nought; un-; non-
to be in high spirits; to be full of vigor (vigour); to be enthusiastic; to be eager; to stretch to breaking point
recess; break time; break between classes; free period; recess time; recreation hour
criticizing; lambasting; pointing out faults; calling for a retake; ordering (somebody) to redo something
birth date; date of birth; DOB
dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)
empty; void; vain; fruitless; lifeless
ignoring; looking the other way; passing through; going through; ball hit through net (in tennis)
chicken bones; chicken carcass
katsuobushi; small pieces of sliced dried bonito
kombu (usu. Saccharina japonica); konbu; kelp; any edible species from the family Laminariaceae
skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis); oceanic bonito; victorfish
to be harvested; to be reaped; to be yielded; to be able to harvest; to be able to reap; to be able to yield
to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair
to diffuse; to spread throughout; to prevail; to become widespread; to reach everyone
to be greedy; to devour greedily
to miss a chance to ask; to miss an opportunity to ask; to forget to ask
to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)
nail; spike; tack; rivet; brad; (pachinko) pin
capture (of enemy territory); taking (by storm); defeating (an opponent); attacking (a problem) strategically
difficult to ...; hard to ...
close; intimate; on good terms
for a short while; for a brief period; soon; in a short while
elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself
unforeseen; unexpected; sudden; accidental
returning alive; surviving; reaching the home plate