bare legs; bare feet; stockingless legs
bikini (swimwear); Bikini island
to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on
top; top position; senior management; senior bureaucrat
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
lower part; substructure; subordinate (office); good and faithful servant
place to look (esp. when averting one's eyes)
more; much more; step; rung; paragraph; passage
to be prominent; to be conspicuous
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
itching-to-grab gesture (made with one's hands)
mumblingly; mutteringly; unintelligibly
to take down; to bring down; to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to withdraw (money); to use for the first time; to wear for the first time
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
self-satisfied look; triumphant look; smug face; shit-eating grin
space; air; midair; (from) memory; (by) heart
to trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve
sunburn; suntan; tan; becoming discolored from the sun (e.g. paper); yellowing
sunscreen; suntan lotion; sunblock
to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear
movements; manner; behaviour; farewell dinner (given by someone about to leave on a trip)
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
though; even if; whether ... or ...
huff!; yo-heave-ho!; heigh-ho; to butter up; to suck up to
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side
ball; ball (pitch that falls outside of the strike zone); bowl; board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)
weakly; helplessly; weak; flimsy; easy to bend
wrong direction; different direction (from what one expected)
abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning
instability; insecurity; crankiness
flaring up; burning hotly; flying into a rage; losing one's cool; opening suddenly and widely (e.g. eyes, mouth); (arch.) acting resolutely
happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
epidermis; cuticle; bark; epidermis; facade