graduation ceremony; commencement
early blooming; early flowering
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
to jest; to joke; to play the fool; to act indecently; to be silly over; to talk foolishly
to forget oneself; to lose control of oneself
to include (in a group or scope); to instruct; to make one understand; to include (a nuance); to put in (an implication); to put in (someone's) mouth
praise; glorification; extolment
charity; benevolence; philanthropy; (love for) humanity; fraternity; brotherhood
being alone; solitude; loneliness; orphan
to have (the) courage (to); to be courageous
preferential treatment; special treatment; discrimination; express delivery; special delivery
with a clatter; with a rattle; empty; bare; raspy (voice); gravelly; with a gargle
thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee
to bear; to stand; to endure; to put up with
turning over while sleeping in bed; betrayal; double-crossing
here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up
affectation; showiness; pretence
indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante)
to grant (a wish); to accede; to comply with; to heed
skin; body (in the context of intimate bodily contact); surface; grain (e.g. of wood); disposition; temperament
to wear; to be dressed in; to have on
as a rule; in general; in principle; basically; essentially; fundamentally
class (e.g. school); grade; rank; kyū; kyu; junior rank in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.
origin; beginning; source; rise
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
powerless; helpless; incompetent
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
to fight against; to oppose; to face
to shake; to swing; to sway; to shock
crushed flat; flattened; flat-chested girl; sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something
to bite and tear; to bite a hole in
to stand on end; to bristle up; to be ruffled
joy; delight; rapture; pleasure; gratification; rejoicing
to spring at; to leap upon; to swoop down on; to throw oneself upon (e.g. an enemy)
to pop off; to pop out; to fly off; to shoot off; to burst open
scattering; diffusion; spread (e.g. signal across the spectrum)
bursting and scattering; popping and being dispersed
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)
remnants of a defeated army
spiderweb; spider web; spider's web; cobweb