happiness; blessedness; luck; luckily; fortunately
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
extremely bothersome; extremely tiresome; extremely troublesome; very tedious
the other side of a river; the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live
youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
to suit; to match; to become; to be like
puppet operator; puppet manipulator; puppeteer
together with; same; both; all; including ...
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
steady; firm; solid; secure
greedy; grasping; tightfisted; predatory (e.g. business); calculating; avaricious
neither this nor that; being at a loss; humming and hawing; shilly-shallying
arguing back and forth; bandying words; verbal tug-of-war
to squat; to crouch down (completely, generally with face looking through knees)
carving; engraving; sculpture
elegance; grace; article; item; counter for items (of food, etc.); counter for dishes or courses (at a restaurant)
craftsman; artisan; tradesman; worker; workman
narrow-minded; obstinate; stubborn; perverse; unreasonable; warped
spicy; hot; salty; harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); painful
as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible
to kick; to refuse; to reject; to stamp (on the ground); to firmly press one's feet (against something)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
older sister; elder sister
to work without sleep or rest
to hang; to suspend; to lower; to reduce; to demote; to move back
exclamation of surprised disappointment, disgust, or worry (yuck, ick, ack, eeew, crap!, blech, gross)
obstinate person; stubbornness; pigheadedness; hard head (like a rock)
to dance down (leaves, petals, etc.); to fall as if dancing
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
spectator; sightseer; onlooker
to speak; to hear a voice
men and women of all ages
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
difficult problem; challenge
cowardice; timidity; bashfulness
mistress (of the house); hostess; landlady; proprietress
to remember; to recollect; to recognize; to recognise
to gnaw; to nibble; to bite; to dabble in; to have a smattering of
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
bang on the money; spot on; right answer