gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy
time; (the) hour; favourable time; opportunity; chance
staff; stuff; stuffing; filling
lecture; sermon; preaching; moralizing; moralising
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
to start a journey; to embark on a trip; to set forth; to hit the trail
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
various countries; various regions; various provinces
travels; pilgrimage; itinerancy
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante); forty-five degree angle
gesture; movement; action; acting; performance
commonplace (of people or animals); ordinary; typical; ubiquitous; run-of-the-mill; found around every corner
tanuki (Nyctereutes procyonoides); raccoon dog; sly dog; sly old fox; sly fox
hakama; man's formal divided skirt
passion; enthusiasm; zeal
to surge; to well up; to gush out
interval; space; valley; gorge; loophole (in a wall); crenel
to shake; to tremble; to sway; to be unsettled; to be unstable; to fluctuate
male instincts; male frivolity
freezing weather; agar-agar; vegetable gelatin
hard-liners; diehards; (young) man with traditionally masculine interests; tough boy; hard news; reporter who covers political and economic affairs
fat; chubby; fatso; fatty; fat person
objection; refutation; rebuttal; counterargument
penis; chink; jingle; begging (animal); jealousy; black porgy juvenile; flirting
writing; composition; essay; sentence
to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to delete; to erase
vulgar; indecent; coarse; crude
disqualification; elimination; incapacity; being unfit for one's role; being a failure
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
to get high (on drugs); to trip; to slur one's words (as a result of taking sleeping pills, etc.); to lose one's wits (due to lack of sleep, etc.); to space out
four times (as much); quadruple; fourfold
to spend time (on doing something)
cecum; caecum; (vermiform) appendix; appendicitis
fort; fortress; stronghold; fortification
sale; offering for sale; release (for sale); launch (product)
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
after all; in the end; conclusion; end; end of a game of go, shogi, etc.
hospitalization; hospitalisation
pus; corruption; rot; evils
to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that