creaking; squeaking; packing in tightly; cramming; hard (pressing, tying, twisting, etc.); tightly
hateful; detestable; abominable; amazing; fantastic; admirable
of uncertain meaning; ambiguous; cryptic; nonsensical; incomprehensible; perplexing
contents of a document (esp. of a letter)
various articles; various items; various kinds
many; numerous; various; large number of
schoolyard; school playground; school grounds; campus
to walk; to go on foot; to tread (a figurative path); to follow; to advance towards (e.g. a solution); to set out (e.g. on the path to destruction, ruin, etc.)
third stage; three stages; third dan (in martial arts, go, shogi, etc.)
pile; heap; counter for things that are stacked, piled up (or layered, etc.); layers of clothing worn under one's overcoat; combination of colors created by layering of garments (colours)
jūbako; multi-tiered food box
actual article or goods; spots (stocks, foreign exchange, commodities, etc.); (in) kind (income, benefit, rent, taxes, investment, etc.)
furoshiki; wrapping cloth; cloth wrapper
to sell (well); to be well known; to be popular; to be famous
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval
to encamp; to take up positions
state of mind; mental state; mental attitude
jack-in-the-box; jack-in-a-box
tightly (packed); densely; closely; crammed
eel (esp. the Japanese eel, Anguilla japonica)
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
tempura; deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter
watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
Japanese ginger (Zingiber mioga); myoga ginger; mioga ginger
tsukemono (pickled vegetables)
buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles; Chinese-style wheat noodles
combination of foods (usu. that do not go well together); dovetailing; fitting together
stale; old fashioned; hackneyed; trite; antiquated; obsolete
irritating; impatient; annoying; frustrating; vexing
to be slippery; to be slimy; (arch.) to behave charmingly; (arch.) to walk merrily
to pick; to pluck; to snip; to cut; to nip
oilily; slimily; slipperily
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs
to get tired of seeing; to get tired of looking at
mouth-to-mouth feeding; beak-to-beak feeding; mouth-to-mouth (resuscitation); conveying by word of mouth; oral tradition
the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; as soon as; whether or not
too (much); overly; excessively