rebellious phase; rebellious age
youthful indiscretion; youthful enthusiasm; youthful excess
drama club (e.g. at school); dramatic society
speech; tongue; dialect; brogue; bento; Japanese box lunch; petal
according to; reads; reading; is written; says; states
extravagant; absurd; unbelievable; enormous; tremendous; extraordinary
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability
cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry
to draw back; to sink; to be set back (e.g. from a road); to withdraw (e.g. from the public eye); to retire to (somewhere)
reluctant; unwilling; involuntary; unintentional; unintended; unlooked-for
privately; with outsiders barred; en famille
(being) by oneself; with no outsiders present
to be overturned; to be reversed; to turn over; to fall down; to tumble down; to topple over
tired feeling; feeling of exhaustion; sense of fatigue; fatigability
neck; bottleneck; obstruction; neckline
to feel relieved of one's burden; to have a weight removed from one's mind
modesty; humility; being humble
writing off (a debt); cancellation; balancing the books; cancelling out (gains or losses); making even; making up (for)
change (for a purchase); toilet splashback
jingling; jangling; clinking; lasciviously; coquettishly
with a bump; with a clunk
for the present; for the time being; at present; in the meantime
cannot be avoided (of a problem, etc.); unavoidable; inevitable
ignorant of the ways of the world
to get conceited; to become vain; to get stuck up; to get a swollen head; (lit.) to become a tengu
child; childish person; immature person
to act like a grown up; to pretend to be an adult
to look coldly at; to turn a cold shoulder
patience; perseverance; persistence; tenacity; energy
root (of a plant); stump (of a tree); root (of a problem, etc.); base
scrubbing hard; scrubbing clean
to slip out; to sneak away; to break into the lead; to get ahead; to begin to fall out (e.g. hair); to break out (of a loop)
to worry about; to be vexed
treating (someone) like an object
to catch fire; to provoke; to catch fire from; to be ignited
tenth day of the month; ten days
agreement; concurrence; conformance; compliance
to ripen (fruit, grain, etc.); to become ripe
having high information content; informative
to keep in pace with; to keep up with; to follow (someone's thought); to understand