manners; etiquette; propriety; manner of production (esp. of prose, poetry, etc.); way of making
moderate; proper; just right
to warm oneself; to sun oneself; to warm up; to get warm
(oral) message; declaration; hearsay; rumour; rumor
after (a long process); at the end of; last line (of a renga)
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom
about to start out; just about to leave or go out; outing; trip
glasses; eyeglasses; spectacles; judgment; judgement; discrimination
hard to see; indistinct; obscure; illegible
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
millet or rice cake, roasted and hardened with starch syrup and sugar (sometimes including peanuts, etc.)
disk; disc; tray; shallow bowl; grid; board (e.g. in shogi)
to push someone (towards); to encourage someone
nimono; food cooked by boiling or stewing
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
stain; spot; smudge; spot (on one's skin, e.g. chloasma, liver spot); blemish; discoloration
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
smartly dressed; stylish; someone smartly dressed; to dress up; to be fashionable
basket; basketball; basket cloth
lunch; noon; midday; daytime; waking up; getting up
to banter; to make fun of; to cool; to refrigerate; to window-shop; to look at without buying
commemorable; worth commemorating; momentous; monumental
several years; a few years
to be excited; to be elated
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
to be erected; to be built
hard to reach place; remote place
research establishment; research institute; laboratory
to enter; to trespass; to interfere; to meddle; to pry into
to shut oneself in (e.g. one's room); to be confined in; to be filled with (emotion, enthusiasm, etc.); to fill the room (of a gas, smell, etc.); to be heavy with (e.g. smoke); to be muffled (e.g. voice); to hold (a castle, fortress, etc.)
bungalow; one-story house
comfortable to live in (of a neighborhood, etc.); convenient; congenial; agreeable
cold; frigid; bracing; dignified
weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
to stagnate; to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to become sluggish; to become dull; to be delayed