useless; waste of time and effort; pointless; vain efforts
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study
receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me
duty; responsibility (incl. supervision of staff); liability; onus
to set off an explosive; to start a fire under someone; to motivate someone with rough words
New Year's Eve; December 31
mode of life; ecology; (animal) territory
to collect; to assemble; to gather
to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)
genius; prodigy; natural gift
to rot; to decay; to die in obscurity; to be forgotten with time
everlasting; immortal; eternal; enduring; undying; imperishable
will (urge) to create; creative urge; appetite for writing
ignition; lighting; firing; setting off
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
true feelings; real intention; one's heart; one's right mind; one's senses; one's conscience
feature; trait; characteristic; peculiarity; distinction
free and uncontrolled; behaving with abandon; freewheeling
stroke of the brush; touch; literary style
lively; vigorous; energetic; full of (energy, appetite, curiosity, etc.); brimming with
something; nothing (with neg. verb)
to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to
literary style; form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)
haikai; collective name for haiku, haibun, haiga, senryū, etc.; humorous or vulgar renga poetry
talkative; loose-lipped; persiflage; frivolous talk
to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
elder brother; one's senior; older man; man older than oneself
tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe
serious; severe; grave; acute
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
to turn one's head; to look over one's shoulder; to turn around; to think back (on); to reminisce; to look back (on)
means of making contact; intermediary; go-between; connections; influence; pull
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...