writing paper; stationery; notepaper
glass (drinking vessel); tumbler; cups (playing card suit)
bottle; jar; decanter; flagon; phial; vial
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
dripping; trickling; drop by drop; in drops
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
snakelike; snaky; serpentine
huge; vast; enormous; swelling; expansion
to read and understand; to take in; to sense from external cues; to read (someone's) mind; to read (calibration, tape, etc.); to scan (bar code)
in error; by mistake; by accident; accidentally
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
cutting edge; leading edge; forefront; tip; end
self-education; self-instruction; self-study
when one was a very young child; very early in one's life
name of an imperial era (e.g. Heisei, Shōwa); Japanese era name
to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like
armband; arm band; brassard
between the pages of a book; between two books
to tie; to restrain; to confine; to bind; to fasten
to hold one's breath; to bate one's breath
to keep a promise; to keep one's word
strong smell of grass (esp. in summer heat)
disorder; chaos; confusion
to become overgrown; to grow thick; to spread; to run rampant; to thrive
intruder; invader; trespasser; raider
to scatter; to cause a shower of; to disperse; to distribute; to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve
sitting together in a circle; happy circle; harmony
unrelated; unconnected; without relations (esp. of a deceased person); having no surviving relatives; unrelated to the teachings of Buddha; unable to be saved by Buddha
yesterday and today; only recently; just recently; only yesterday
ringleader; mastermind; leader (of a plot)
forbidding to speak; muzzling (a person); bribing into secrecy; hush money
substitute national holiday; day off in lieu of a national holiday that falls on a Sunday; compensatory holiday