tearing; ripping; crunching; munching; stiff; starchy; (working) hard
than; from; out of; except; but; more
to lose hair; to become bald; to become bare (e.g. a mountain becomes bare of trees)
why; oh; no!; quit it!; stop!
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife; his and hers; pair of objects, one larger (for man), one smaller (for woman)
mistress; kept woman; concubine
manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act (usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit)
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
with a friendly grin; smilingly
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
thin-culmed dwarf bamboo (growing in clusters); Japanese transverse bamboo flute (high-pitched; usu. with seven holes); sliver (strand of loose fibers)
soccer club (at a school); football club
player (of a sport); athlete; team member
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
whistling (wind); blowing; fluttering (in the wind); waving; staggering; tottering
calculating; mercenary; selfish; self-interested
mean; malicious; scheming; wicked; black-hearted
to be torn off; to come off
unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; uncomfortable; unhappy
to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
clever; smart; sharp (ear, etc.); sensitive; discerning
hindrance; obstacle; to visit (someone's home); demon who hinders Buddhist training; demon who obstructs sentient beings from maintaining moral behaviour
prime factorization; prime decomposition
solitude; loneliness; isolation
smoothly; swimmingly; forthrightly; without hesitation
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)
early; a little earlier than usual; a little faster than usual; slightly quicker
correction; revision; amendment
sooner or later; in time; eventually
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
sidelong glance; short grain (paper)
almost; roughly; approximately
coincident with; while; simultaneously
to spout out; to spurt out; to sprout; to bud; to burst into laughter; to blow (smoke, etc.)
to place one's arm around each other's shoulders; to join shoulders
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
that's true; of course; obviously
annoyance (to); bane (of); constant worry (to)