ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
to project; to stand out; to jut out; to protrude
cheating at pachinko (for monetary gain; through illegal tampering with the machines, etc.); scamming a pachinko parlor
view; opinion; finding; findings
confluence (of rivers); flowing together; joining; joining (of people, groups, parties, etc.); union; linking up
(spoken) line (in a play, film, comic, etc.); one's lines; comment; remark; stock phrase; set phrase
peep; peeping; peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures; peep; placing a stone before a connecting point (threatening to divide the opponent's stones)
head start; initiative; preemption
judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of
something unrelated (to what has been discussed thus far)
to backfire; to produce a result opposite to what was expected or intended
one more time; once more; once again
disappointment; despair; despondency; broken heart; adversity
attentive; cautious; careful; watchful
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
to be reborn; to be reincarnated; to turn over a new leaf; to become a new person; to be reorganized; to be transformed
to make (someone) understand (a fault, mistake, etc.); to reason with; to advise; to try to persuade; to exhort; to admonish
taking a story with a grain of salt; discounting half the story
behaving outrageously as though there were no one around; acting without consideration for others; arrogance; audacity; insolence
region; limits; stage; level
long ago; a long time ago; already
graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.); quitting
lifting a girl's skirt; flipping up a skirt
subjective symptoms; patient's complaints
still more; even more; all the more; still less; even less
point (of a story, argument, etc.); key point; point; site; point (in scoring); point (in a loyalty program); points
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
(picture) frame; framed picture; amount (esp. of money); sum
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
origin; source; basis; base; cause; (raw) material; ingredient
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
funny story; funny anecdote
partition; division; settlement of accounts; preliminary warm-up ritual; toeing the mark; directing
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
sure to ...; certain to ...; bound to ...; it's natural that ...; it's obvious that ...
with a start; in surprise; suddenly (realize, remember, etc.); all of a sudden; puffing (air); with a puff
speaking voice; talking voice
hi!; yo!; hey man!; yessir!; understood!
to keep (a person) waiting
Sui dynasty (of China; 581-618)
to assail the nostrils (smell); to go nose-to-nose (with someone)
(feeling of) hatred; (strong) dislike; disgust; aversion; revulsion; loathing
somehow; for some reason or other
creepy (feeling); uneasy (feeling); bad (feeling); giving one the creeps; hideous; scaring