claim; insistence; assertion; advocacy; emphasis; contention
soaked; drenched; sopping; incessantly (raining); drizzling
first words said (e.g. when meeting someone); first thing out of one's mouth; first speech; inaugural address
morning; forenoon; just before noon
fuel consumption; gas mileage
boiled greens in bonito-flavoured soy sauce (vegetable side dish)
tofu; bean curd; beancurd
wakame (species of edible brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida)
boiled daikon (or turnip, etc.) eaten hot with miso
odious; hateful; detestable; (speaking ironically) darling
to serve; to dish up; to dish out; to dress (oneself in); to attire oneself in; to adorn
(eating up) quickly; in no time; quickly (sticking out one's tongue); licking; licking up; (peeling off) in one go
hairy caterpillar; woolly bear; pest; nudnik (nudnick)
the greater embraces the less; better too big than too small
the last drop makes the cup run over; too much of a good thing; less is more
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
first floor; ground floor; one floor; one storey; one rank
conquest (of a difficulty, illness, handicap, etc.); overcoming; bringing under control; subjugation; victory over
one's own work; making by oneself
startup; booting up; activation; starting (e.g. engine, computer); launch
to rise up; to initiate (political) action
mouse (esp. laboratory); (computer) mouse; mouth
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
arrow (symbol); (romantic) interest (for a certain person); direction (of one's attention, etc.)
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
blank column; blank space