cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
finely cut strips (of vegetables); shredded vegetables
appetizer; starter; hors d'oeuvre
fixed idea; idée fixe; stereotype; prejudice
to be completed; to be finished; to be ready (e.g. to serve or eat); to be very drunk
salt; common salt; hardship; toil; saltiness; cold
container; receptacle; vessel; packaging
to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
gaping (e.g. mouth, wound); (opening) wide; snapping up (e.g. bait); biting into (food); plagiarism; rip-off
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
tingling; stinging; pungently
to become a (bad) habit; to get accustomed to
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of
video (esp. digital); video clip; animation; animated cartoon; in-betweens (animation)
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
stock; products; stolen goods; loot; spoils
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
to roughen (e.g. one's attitude); to raise (one's voice)
junior high school student; middle school pupil
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
sense of guilty pleasure; feeling of naughtiness
audiovisual; adult video; porn video; pornographic video
broth; soup (esp. miso soup)
to hang; to droop; to give (e.g. lesson, instruction, scolding) (to someone of lower status); to confer; to drip; to ooze; to leave behind (at death)
to hurry (up); to urge on; to press; to rush
desperation; despair; self-abandonment
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
to tell; to (try to) persuade; to advise; to warn; to admonish; to reason
to bite into; to sink one's teeth into
handle; grip; holder; person who holds
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
how; in what way; how about; questionable
good flavor; good flavour; delicacy; dainty
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
impressions; thoughts; feelings; reactions
to pickle thoroughly; to pickle a large amount
meat soup; bouillon; juices (from grilled meat); gravy
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station