spine; backbone; spinal column
a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many
following; pursuing; tracking; shadowing; tailing; chasing
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
to draw in; to take in; to retract; to withdraw; to take back (e.g. words)
footprints; record of page visitors (e.g. in social networking sites)
soggy; soaked; crushed (out of shape); crumpled; messy; untidy
term; terminology; wording; choice of words; phraseology
silence; stillness; quietness
June; sixth month of the lunar calendar
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
Japanese bush warbler (Horornis diphone); Japanese nightingale; greenish brown; having a beautiful voice
rock (music); rock; boulder; on the rocks
hooo-hokekyo (call of the Japanese bush warbler); chirp-chirp; tweet-tweet
stretching a rope around; roping off; one's turf; domain; territory (of an animal)
migratory bird; bird of passage
displeasure; discomfort; unpleasantness; indisposition; ailment
to cross one's mind; to occur to one
selection; classification; sorting; screening; triage
Asian black bear (Selenarctos thibetanus); moon bear
going to and fro; back and forth
pole; climax; extreme; extremity
floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)
linear motor train; linear induction motor train; magnetic levitation train; maglev train
principle; theory; fundamental truth
quite; very; 10^48; quindecillion
width; breadth; freedom (e.g. of thought); latitude; gap; difference (e.g. in price)
to hang on to; to hang from; to hound; to keep after (someone); to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips
confident; assured; self-assured; bullish (e.g. market)
mental image; mental picture; image
about when; about what time; how soon
madly in love; head over heels; fanatically doting; collapsed; out of spirits
old-fashioned; ancient-looking; time-worn
high level concept; superordinate concept; broader term
understanding person; supporter
to drive away; to order off; to chase away; to force into an unpleasant situation (bankruptcy, prostitution, suicide, etc.)
innocent; naive; artless; unsophisticated; pure; fresh