reading (farsighted) glasses; spectacles for the aged
having one's guard up; not showing weak points; (of women) resisting attempts of being hit on; being distrustful of potential love interests; prudish
expresses displeasure or disapproval; just from (doing); simply by
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
sprouting; budding; crush (esp. on an imaginary character in manga, etc.); fascination; infatuation
any kind of; every; whatsoever; whatever
boiling; seething; becoming heated (e.g. debate); excitement; soaring (prices); shooting up
speaker; narrator; speaker (of a language)
dear; darling; adorable; precious; cute; lovely
to wind around; to wrap around; to coil around
becoming irritated (suddenly); getting annoyed
to kick away; to kick off; to kick hard; to refuse curtly; to reject outright
so much (something) as to (e.g. so moved as to cry); overwhelmed; carried away; because of too much
calling repeatedly (e.g. someone's name); pronouncing successively (usu. repeating a syllable with voicing, as in "tsuzuku")
to blow off (strongly); to blow away; to drive away (e.g. one's worries); to dispel; to do at great speed (e.g. drive a car); to carry out (a task) very quickly
to gather up; to scrape up together; to rake
to select; to choose; to diagnose (an illness); to judge; to liken to something else; to regard as something else (e.g. to use another person as a mirror); to see someone off
equation; formula; method for solving a problem; set way of achieving a particular result
to become dull; to become lifeless; to get bored; to lose interest; to lose value after a peak (e.g. stock); to weaken (of the market)
difficult; tough; formidable; redoubtable; stubborn
dramatization (e.g. of a novel); dramatisation; adaptation; dramatization; embellishment; exaggeration
roar of laughter (from multiple people); burst of laughter; uproarious laughter; laughing hard (by a single person)
dissolution; dissolving; solution (e.g. chemical); melting; liquefying; fusion
calm; composed; leisurely
to sift out; to screen or eliminate (candidates)
haughty; arrogant; supercilious
bare rock; rock surface; rock face
interior; inside; internal
eruption; volcanic eruption
to flow into; to pour into; to stream into
village; hamlet; countryside; country
fertile; rich; productive
ground; earth; the solid earth; the (vast) land
ripening (of a crop); crop; harvest
to grant; to give; to confer; to teach; to instruct; to impart (knowledge)
last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)
to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)
imitation; copy; make-believe; doing something in a way that only superficially resembles the real thing
risky; dangerous; suggestive; bordering on the obscene; (arch.) extreme; (arch.) harsh