onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)
item; article; dish; course; finest item
burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering
to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
sweets (desserts, candy, etc.)
jello (gelatin-based dessert); jelly; gel; jelly
pudding (esp. custard); black hair dyed blond but where the roots have again turned black
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
shiruko; sweet red-bean soup with mochi
discussion; talk; tête-à-tête; conference
taking on one's share (e.g. of work); dividing (work, expenses, etc.) between; apportionment; allotment; allocation; assignment
to begin to write; to start writing; to write out (e.g. on a blackboard); to extract (and write down); to write down (the important parts); to export
flesh; meat; flesh (of a fruit); pulp; the physical body (as opposed to the spirit); flesh; thickness
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
eating with one's fingers; snitching food; snatched food; embezzlement; misappropriation; flirting
adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
refined rice flour; rice flour for dumplings
you're welcome; don't mention it; not at all; my pleasure
to run out of; to be short of; to be out of stock; to be out of (e.g. breath); to lose (one's patience, concentration, etc.)
to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
to chide; to rebuke; to reprove
to stop talking; to break off; to pause
as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible
to leave; to go away; to pass; to elapse; to be distant; to send away; to drive off
to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse
to cure; to heal; to fix; to correct; to do over again; to replace
studying for a test (esp. school or university entrance examinations)
to be at wits' end; to be greatly perplexed; to be troubled
axis; shaft; center; centre; stalk; stem
to touch; to come in contact with; to receive (e.g. visitor); to attend to; to receive (news); to get; to encounter
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence
function; function (programming)
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
drawing; picture; diagram; sight; scene
to throw down; to throw out; to abandon; to resign; to give freely; to give generously
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
to point upward; to look upward; to improve
finally; at last; ultimately; in the end
day in question; appointed day; that very day; the day (of issue, publication, etc.)