commitment; pledge; promise
to furnish; to install; to get someone's agreement; to patronize; to buy usually from the same store
dry riverbed; river beach
monotony; monotone; dullness; monotone; monotonic
long (time); longstanding; for a long time
to go down and stand; to alight; to get down
to arrange; to make an appointment; to agree upon
one-ring scam; one ring; disconnecting a call after one ring has gone through
glittering; sparkling; glistening; twinkling
to come out all right; to take care of itself; to be OK
hearty; tremendous; magnificent; glorious; splendid; heroic
to use as an intermediary; to worry; to mind; to care
to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in
to put back up; to stand back up; to restore (to former strength); to revive (e.g. the economy); to make again (a plan, policy, etc.); to reformulate
to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise
and so; therefore; for that reason
short (in height); stumpy; tiny; short (trousers, etc.); undersized
flat broke; cleaned out; penniless
employee of a non-governmental or non-profit organization
giving one's name (or rank, etc.); self-introduction; name readings of kanji
eccentric; queer; unconventional; peculiar; original
at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can
massing (of troops); gathering
floating; drifting; weightlessness; softly; gently; lightly
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red
bathing; to bathe; to take a bath; to enter a bath
sneak photography; non-consensual photography; peeping photos
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings
ice; ice cream; icecream; (arch.) usurer; (arch.) usury
residence; housing; residential building